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From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross)
Subject: [TUHS] // comment in C++
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 19:17:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W7g--QoT2wziamyY882MvEPftLNMwZTWYanCWv5GVq4Xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1702100832410.46495@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> > I didn't know that // was now accepted to begin a comment in C, but I
> > strongly suspect that any compiler modern enough to know about that will
> > know just as well about #if 0.
>
> // isn't in ANSI C, but I've been using it for years on quite a few
> platforms (I see that even M$ supports it); I don't know where I first saw
> it.


Well, it wasn't in c89, but it's been part of ANSI C since 1999: almost 20
years!

        - Dan C.
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-08 18:06 ron minnich
2017-02-08 18:08 ` A. P. Garcia
2017-02-08 18:17 ` arnold
2017-02-08 23:39   ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-08 23:52     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-09  2:11       ` Corey Lindsly
2017-02-09  2:46         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-09  2:53           ` Corey Lindsly
2017-02-09  4:38           ` Warner Losh
2017-02-09  2:47       ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-09  4:55         ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-09 11:59           ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-09 21:56             ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-10  0:17               ` Dan Cross [this message]
2017-02-10  1:58                 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-10  2:46                   ` Nemo
2017-02-10  2:49                     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-10  9:30                   ` arnold
2017-02-10  9:19               ` arnold
2017-02-09 12:18           ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-09 13:31             ` Nick Downing
2017-02-08 22:45 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-02-08 22:50   ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-08 23:22     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-02-09 12:12     ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-09 12:26       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-09 14:37         ` Random832
2017-02-09 14:49           ` Random832
2017-02-09 12:31       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-02-09 13:07         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-08 22:51   ` ron minnich
2017-02-08 23:22     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
     [not found] <mailman.204.1486594285.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-02-09  0:03 ` Paul McJones
2017-02-09  2:28   ` Marc Rochkind
2017-02-09 13:11   ` Tony Finch
2017-02-09 14:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-09 16:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 19:36   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 21:14 Doug McIlroy
2017-02-10 17:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso

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