[vorbis-dev] Compile problems

[OmegaDan]

I would think of this more as a feature -- instead of
propagating the error into the source code gcc catches
the problem outright.  Of course the study of #if 0 is
acedemic at best :)

OD

--- Jeff Squyres <jsquyres at lsc.nd.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> 
> > #if 0/#endif can still lead to compiler complaints
> if the comments
> > (which it doesn't recognize as such contain
> something like ubalanced
> > (uneven number of) apostrophes. The contents of
> #if 0/#endif must be
> > complete preprocessor tokens - they are only (and
> very) good for code.
> 
> Forgive me for being off topic...
> 
> Actually, that appears to be a gcc-ism -- and
> admittedly without checking
> the C specs -- I'd guess that it's wrong.
> 
> I can compile the following program on multiple
> different native compilers
> (Solaris, IRIX) as well as KCC and pgcc (third party
> C++ compilers) and
> only gcc seems to have a problem with it:
> 
> -----
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int
> main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
> #if 0
>   This is totally bogus '
> #endif
>   printf("Hello, world!\n");
>   return 0;
> }
> -----
> 
> gcc complains of an unterminated character constant.
>  But I think it
> should apply the preprocessor *first*, and then do
> the syntactical
> analysis.  All the others seem to do that.
> 
> Just my $0.02.
> 
> The point is moot, because:
> 
> 1. Monty is fixing the real problem
> 2. There were no unterminated char/string constants
> in the code; if there
>    were, you'd have larger problems anyway
> 
> :-)
> 
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