From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 9:59:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F0237B718 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14iKDw-000Nj6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:59:12 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2SHxCs75737 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:59:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:59:08 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: what is '#ifdef 0' for? Message-ID: <20010328185908.A75658@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #ifdef 0 . . . #endif Since it always evaluates to false, is this a way of 'commenting' out code so it is not used? I guess the only reason not to insert /* and then */ is to prevent nested comments, correct? jm -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." --------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message