From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9's C compiler and // comments
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:21:21 +0300
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> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 a.d., David Presotto wrote:
> > 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); }

Judging about what I understand of cmd/cc/macbody:237-260,
ex. the /**/ comments are not passed through macros to be dealt with
later, but discarded during the parsing of the '#define' directive.

So the handling of '//' comments is just special in this case.

Regards,
Adi