Nested comments in VAX C -- Help!

Brendan Kehoe brendan at cs.widener.edu
Tue May 7 11:39:53 AEST 1991


In <114836 at cc.utah.edu>, RCAPENER at cc.utah.edu writes:
>if you try  /* outside comment /* inside comment */ */
>the compiler throws up!

 As it should .. no compiler should let that through.
 When you "nest" comments, you have multiple starts (/*); the */
sequence tells cpp that it's the end of the comment, and it should
start paying attention again. The second */ is what it's throwing up on.

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