#2 Multiline comments break code

[Daniel David Olson I]

Comments that end in \ will be interpreted as a multiline
comment in newer nasm's. This has been verified on
nasm 0.98.30 and did not occur with nasm 0.98. For
example, the following code will break with newer versions:

; comment here \
.somelabel

This may or may not be intentional, but it is unintuitive and
has broken existing code. I suggest removing multiline
comments.

[H. Peter Anvin]

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Current behaviour is consistent with the C/C++ preprocessor.
It's debatable whether or not it's the desired behaviour,
but it's not a high-priority issue.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Why not add a command line option, which controls whether or not line continuation is disabled or enabled?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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it certainly isnt in my opinion

;\\ ----------------------------------------------------------- \\
; no ansi art anymore plz \\
;\\------------------------------------------------------------ \\

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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aa

[ddd]

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rr

[nasm64developer]

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In my local forked version I have added a command line
option which can be used to disable line continuation.

[Victor van den Elzen]

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It's tempting to close this as wontfix, but I'll move it to Feature Requests just in case someone wants to pick it up.

[H. Peter Anvin]

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For what it's worth, gcc issues a warning for //-style comments extended by ending the line in \