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From: wtanksle AT sdcc15 DOT ucsd DOT edu (William Tanksley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Parse Errors! Argh!  help me please
Date: 16 Aug 1996 04:50:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <9608131819 DOT aa26617 AT ailin DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar> "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar> writes:

>>I use comments like this ---->     //comments here
>>I think it supports only this king---->   /*comments here*/

>Check if you don't have a line like this:
>.......... c code ....... // a comment \

>  Is that ANSI?

According to K&R, Second edition (a very valulable reference on things 
ANSI), backslashes at the end of lines get processed before anything else 
save trigraphs.  So the backslash-EOL will get removed before the comment 
is removed.

A tricolon, in case you're wondering, is a set of three ISO-standard 
characters which represent a single ANSI/ASCII character which the ISO 
set is missing.  For example, ??/ stands for backslash.

>Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) - salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar

-Billy