10 Feb
2017
10 Feb
'17
2:46 a.m.
On 9 February 2017 at 20:58, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
Hhmmm... I do not have ANSI C99 (or C11) but ISO/IEC 9899:TC3 states
(in Para. 6.4.9):
Except within a character constant, a string literal, or a comment,
the characters //
introduce a comment that includes all multibyte characters up to, but
not including, the
next new-line character.
N.
Well, it wasn't in c89, but it's been
part of ANSI C since 1999: almost 20
years!
Not in my C book 2nd ed. (ANSI), it isn't...
A2.2 Comments
The characters /* introduce a comment, which terminates with the
characters */. Comments do not not nest, and they do not occur within
string or character literals.
There is no mention of "//"; I have the 51st printing, August 2013.
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