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Subject: Re: cc in FreeBSD
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:48:33 +0100 (MET)
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199602230925.KAA19917@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Feb 23, 96 10:25:46 am
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> > 
> > Garrett A. Wollman sez:
> > > 
> > > > Not sure if this question is apropos for the Questions list, but is
> > > > there a switch in the cc for FreeBSD (gcc 2.6.3, looks like) that
> > > > allows C++-style comments in a C source file?
> > > 
> > > Nope.  Try this:
> > > 
> > > perl -spi.bak -e 's,//(.*)$,/*$1 */,' *.c
> 
> You script will fail on this:
> 
> main(){ double a=3.//* this is a comment*/4.;printf("%f",a);}

or this one:

/* ////////// */

> 
> 
> > > 
> > 
> > You guys are simply amazing.  That's all there is to it.  Here I was
> > being pretty glib about writing this in about 4 lines of Perl code and
> > it comes back to me demonstrated in one.  Wow.  (I guess to be fair, 2
> > of those lines were the equivilant of the '-p' switch which I didn't
> > know about).  Good show!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -- 
> > ( -Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net>  |                                )
> > (             <wsantee@oz.net> (backup) | No one told you when to run... )
> > ( http://www.oz.net/~wsantee            \------------------------------- )
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> > 
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de