Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:7231 From: Erik Max Francis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Parse Errors! Argh! help me please Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:49:25 -0700 Organization: Alcyone Systems Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32112295.48558E43@alcyone.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: annex-p136.meer.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii wrote: > That is incorrect. GCC 2.7.0 and later also supports C++-style comments > in a C program. If the version of GCC that's used is earlier (DJGPP v2.0 > comes with GCC 2.7.2), then there is a switch to GCC you can use to make > it support C++-style comments, like so: > > gcc -c -Wp,-lang-c-c++-comments myprog.c > > For more details on this, read section 8.3 of the DJGPP FAQ list > (available as v2/faq201b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP). A better idea, though, is to not use C++-style comments in a C program in the first place. It's like trying to use shell script comments in a FORTRAN program; they're two different things. (If you had to inherit code, that's at least one reason not to be keen on converting comment styles.) -- Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE http://www.alcyone.com/max/ max AT alcyone DOT com San Jose, California ICBM 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W R^4: the 4th R is respect War's a game which were their subjects wise/Kings would not play at. -- Cowper