RE: [Dev-C++] Dev-C++ Bug? Using backslash within comments

[Reid T. <Rei...@at...>]

Jonathan Dearborn wrote:
> Well, Reid, that sounds like good enough evidence.  I'm not positive
> on what the "other" compiler is, but I think it is Visual C++.  At
> any rate, thanks for clearing that up.
 =20
> In my opinion, it shouldn't
> be read by the compiler because the preprocessor should take out all
> commented text.=20

That is what is happening, the line following the 'intended' comment
line with the terminating '\' is considered as part of the 'intended'
comment and is being handled as such ( i.e. it is not converted to
executable form by the compiler -- whether that means that it is not
passed to the compiler, or is passed but is ignored by the compiler
'because it's a comment' I don't know.)

>Maybe I've just never heard of extending a one-line
> comment and this is how it's done. I didn't want Dev-C++ to be the
> odd one out if more compilers ignored it (since I only use Dev-C++).=20
> I now doubt that it'll ever be a big enough problem unless this
> rarely-used feature to overlook backslashes at the end of comments in
> a (most likely) single compiler is used in popular free source.  I
> don't see that happening more than where I got it from.  Thanks for
> your help, Reid.=20
>=20
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