Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> > -# define AI_ADDRCONFIG 0 /* 0x0020: Use configuration of this >> > host to choose >> > +# define AI_ADDRCONFIG 0 /* 0x0020: Use configuration of this >> > host to choose \ >> > returned address type. */ >> >> A backslash-newline in a /* */ comment that's not in a macro definition? > > The comment is part of a macro definition, precisely. I added the backslash > because the syntax highlighting in 'kate' made me think that without the > backslash there was a syntax error. The syntax highlighting in Emacs and > Eclipse is correct, though. > > I'm doing C for 20 years now, and discovering today that the code > > #define X foo /* comment > comment */ bar > > is well-formed, and X will expand to foo bar > > Simon, should I revert the commit?
Yeah, I think if there is no known reason to have the backslash there, it should not be there. /Simon
