Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Comments and pragma lines Message-ID: <1988Dec5.180730.1672@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <48957@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1988Nov29.171740.22165@utzoo.uucp> <1832@laidbak.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 18:07:30 GMT In article <1832@laidbak.UUCP> katzung@laidbak.UUCP (Brian Katzung) writes: >>It's even legal to write "/* foo */ # /* bar */ pragma ...". > >Unless I'm mistaken, only in a function-like #define token replacement list! >It won't be a #pragma because the # is not the first character on the line. X3J11 has removed the first-char-on-the-line restriction; now # can be preceded, as well as followed, by white space (which is what comments are). -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu