The [568]c compilers in the Go tree are based on the Inferno/Plan 9
compilers. Did something change?

On Jun 25, 2010 8:47 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

In /sys/src/cmd/cc/macbody:298,301

       if(c == '\n') {
               yyerror("comment and newline in define: %s", s->name);
               break;
       }

suggests that all "C" compilers explictly forbid newlines within
comments when a macro is #defined.  At a glance, I'd say that removing
the above will eliminate what to me seems an anachronism.  Am I
overlooking something?

The Go toolchain code unsurprisingly uses multiline comments in
src/cmd/ld/elf.h and I'm loath to request the Go Authors to hack their
header file for a non-standard feature of the Plan 9 compilers.  I
concede that the header in question would benefit, aesthetically, from
having those comments adjusted.

++L