From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@mediaone.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: warning: multi-line comment (why?)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:26:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000917162647.A19521@cygnus.com>
References: <20000917185453.A14829@mediaone.net>
X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00383.html

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:54:53PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> x.cc:2:2: warning: multi-line comment 
> 
> What is the point of this warning?  Shouldn't the preprocessor
> just ignore everything between the // and the end-of-line?

No, backslash-newline conversion happens before comments
are discarded.  You really do have a multi-line comment;
one that would be dangerous if your next line weren't a
comment as well.


r~