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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:30:49 -0400, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
> 
> Glen Barber writes:
> 
> >  >> // redo, skip TAGS
> >  >
> >  > Is this C or C++ source code? I always thought // was C++
> >  > specific...
> >  >
> >  
> >  "//" comments are recognized by both C and C++.
> 
> 	How about "... are recognized by both C++ and more recent versions
> of C."?

That's what I thought. In fact, I *had* C programs containing
the // comments, but they failed to compile. After changing
the // to /* ... */ it worked. Maybe that's not an issue anymore,
but I've been told by a long-time C programmer that // should
be kept out of C code for maximum compatibility.



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