Re: [Doxygen-users] EXPAND_AS_DEFINED and Poor Mans Inheritance

[Hendrik S. <Do...@HS...>]

"Peter Steiner" <pet...@hu...> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 23:02:34 +0200, Hendrik Schober wrote:
> 
> > "Peter Steiner" <pet...@hu...> wrote:
> 
> >> [...]
> >> It seems that the doxygen comments inside my macro BASECLASS are
> >> swallowed during the preprocessing stage. 
> 
> >   AFAIK that's what the C++ standard says how it should be. 
> 
> Where does it state this? A very quick glance at section 2.7 (Comments)
> and chapter 16 (Preprocessing Directives) didn't give any statement
> _when_ to remove comments. 

  Sorry, no chapter and verse available from me. 
  My English is way to bad to read the C++ standard 
  (except when I have a hard time to fall asleep).
  It's what I seem to remember from discussions on 
  comp.lang-c++.moderated. 

>                            To be exactly, I'm more interested in the C
> standard in this case anyway, as the source is C (or I'd be able to use
> C++ inheritance instead of some obscure macro technology...)

  Oh, C. No idea. 

> And as doxygen does not see the fully preprocessed source
> (or it wouldn't see _any_ comment), it doesn't really matter what the
> C++ or C standard says...

  What I meant was, that doxygen seems to be C++ 
  standard compliant in respect to comments within 
  preprocessor macros. 

> [...] But doxygen doesn't use the compilers preprocessor, it uses
> its own. I just plea for this _feature_ inside doxygen...

  Ah, I see. I guess it was too late last night... 

> Regards
> 
> Peter

  Schobi