Hariharan wrote: > I am not exactly sure if this is buggy behaviour, but it obviously isnt > what i would have expected. > > Please clarify if this is a bug. It's a bug in your expectations. "#if 0" is not the same as a glorified comment marker. The text it contains must still consist of valid preprocessor tokens, because it must still remain parsable by the preprocessor. Consider for example that "#endif" could occur inside a backslash-newline-continued string and in that case it is a string literal and not treated as an #endif by the preprocessor. So, the preprocessor has to care about balanced quotes, even in text that it is discarding. Brian
