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Hello all,

When I define a macro like this,

#define MJOR_VERS 6 // Major version number

does the value of a macro include the comment too?

Regards,
Nickolai Leschov

Feb 28 '08 #1
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Nickolai Leschov wrote:
Hello all,

When I define a macro like this,

#define MJOR_VERS 6 // Major version number

does the value of a macro include the comment too?
No.

--
Er*********@sun.com
Feb 28 '08 #2
Eric Sosman wrote:
>
... which in turn raises the question of why the
translation phases are defined in this particular way.
The best answer I have for that question is that the
preprocessor is not really a manipulator of text, but
a manipulator of tokens[*] that are extracted from
the text. The tokens in the given definition are

#
define
MAJOR_VERS
6

... and that's all: Comments, like other forms of
white space, are not tokens.
Thank you very much for your answer.
Feb 28 '08 #3

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