On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > Hi Florian, > > The # is a preprocessor directive. > > The X is not a preprocessor directive. > > The rules for parsing preprocessor directives is different form the rules > for parsing non-preprocessor directives. (The state machine is in a > different state.) > > HTH, > --Eljay > > Hi, thanks for the reply. But there seems to happen something strange BEFORE the preprocessing itself (in comment remove stage?). Why am I allowed to do a... # /* */ define and a # define not? I thought the stage where it strips out comments comes before the "main" preprocessor where it scans for #-directives. so why is the # define allowed to be split on multiple lines WITHOUT a backslash-newline? afaik, any comment gets replaced by a single " " and every newline inside the comment gets added AFTER the comment. so the # /* */ define should become a # define after the comment removing stage - but this does not work see above. (just confused wheter it does something special with comments "inside" a #-directive) -Florian
