Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 18:42:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: obrien@leonardo.net (Mike O'Brien) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, gj@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: This one looks very very suspecious to me.... Message-ID: <199505100142.SAA06135@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505092321.QAA00215@caern.protocorp.com> from "Mike O'Brien" at May 9, 95 04:21:05 pm
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> > One problem with #ifdef as opposed to commenting something out > is that the current version of GCC seems to (try to) parse character > constants inside #ifdef blocks. Use of apostrophes inside #ifdef > comment blocks caused me fits while trying to port the Rand editor, > for example. Previous versions of the compiler didn't care. I ran into this too, trying to fix -Wcomment by putting some of the offending comment blocks that would be hard to change to *not* have nested comments (go read the sources to indent, and compile them -Wcomment to see what I am talking about.) #if 0 /* We are going to get an error here /* even though this * is inside an #if 0 */ #endif > > Mike O'Brien > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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