On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 09:03:22AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:30:49PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > Glen Barber writes: > > > > > > "//" comments are recognized by both C and C++. > > > > How about "... are recognized by both C++ and more recent versions > > of C."? > > I think gcc++ and gcc use the same preprocessor? Comments are stripped > in the preprocessor. > > The only thing we can really say is that gcc accepts // as a comment. Is > becoming an accepted convention in other C's but I doubt one can > universally state that its accepted in all "recent versions".
It is accepted in recent versions of C, but not necessarily by all C compilers, depending on which version of C they support. "//" comments were added to C in the 1999 revision of the C standard, and was already then a very common extension that was supported by many compilers. If gcc supports "//" comments or not depends on which mode it is running in. If you run it in strict C89 mode, then it will not support "//" comments, but if you run it in C99 mode (or as a C++ compiler), it will support them. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
