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From: tucker@meadow.mdso.vf.mmc.com (Clark Tucker)
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Subject: Re: cc in FreeBSD
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org  Fri Feb 23 10:02:59 1996
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 07:52:59 -0600
> From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@uswest.com>
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> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
> Cc: wsantee@wsantee.oz.net, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: cc in FreeBSD
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> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 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);}
> 

I think this code will produce an error in any C++ compiler. (It
does under Sun's SC3.0 CC ...) 

I believe I read in a a Stroustrup book (Design and Implementation of C++)
that this was considered a potential problem but was not addressed in the 
syntax due to the fact that such a case was rare and confusing anyways.

(my $0.02)

> I don't think I'd want a program working for me that put out
> stuff like this.
> 
> 
> > or this one:
> > 
> > /* ////////// */
> 
> Ok, this could happen, but is unlikely.
> 
> -- 
> Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com
> 
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