On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:22:54PM -0400, comeauat9f...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:53 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: > > can you give am example where // comments with ' cause > > trouble. i can't replicate. > > My guess is that he is not referring to 8c et al but too pcc. That means > something like: > > // I can't replicate > > Becomes an error. Many classic UNIX[-like] preprocessors will diagnose > it as an error as it's pre-ANSI processing
The fact is, the "'" is reported as an error in "cmd/gc/go.y" and "cmd/gc/mkbuiltin.c" and whereas the latter is correct, the former doesn't make sense. The comments are within "C" code that should not be compiled with pcc but with 8c. I need to get to the bottom of that problem. ++L