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Subject: [9fans] plan9's C compiler and // comments
From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:02:23 -0400
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It accepts it just fine.  You're just defining a macro as

	"wow!"	// this won't work

and when it gets expanded in the exits you get

void main() { exits("wow!"	// this won't work); }

which eats up the '); }' at the end of the function.