From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3DDBB34E.4CB0FEE@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c buglet? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:38:00 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24a71668-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Petr Cejchan wrote: > I encountered this behavior of 8c with // comments: Reminds me of Unix's (Reiser) cpp, which had a buffer- boundary bug such that *occasionally* (maybe 1 time in 200) a termination */ was not properly detected ans so extra code was in effect "commented out" during compilation. We fixed that in the BRL version(s) of Unix, but it may still have been wrong in some releases of Unix System V. (I'd have to check and it doesn't seem worth doing.)