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How to enable nesting comments

Peter Muthesius

Hello Forum,
I wanna use nesting comments with µvision/C166. How to enable them? It is really annoying to work without them.
Thanks - Peter

N.B.: Nesting comments means something like this:
/* bla bla /* This is bla */
blub blub */
All of this is a comment. Without nesting comments the comment would end just before "blub blub" and the second "*/" would end up with an error.

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  • 0 in reply to Alex Ruiz

    Many compilers support such nesting of comments, and usually have an option to enable or disable it.

    Probably, the facility is more common in "bigger" compilers; eg MSVC, BCB.

    C51 doesn't support it, either. :-(

    Perhaps you could try using the Borland or MS preprocessor, and compile the result with C166.

    A common reason for using it is when commening-out a block of code; eg,

    /* disabled code
   x = 1;         /* Blah   */
   y = 2;         /* Waffle */
   z = f( x, y ); /* Tripe  */
*/

    In this case, an alternative could be:

    #if 0
   x = 1;         /* Blah   */
   y = 2;         /* Waffle */
   z = f( x, y ); /* Tripe  */
#endif

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  • 0 in reply to Alex Ruiz

    Many compilers support such nesting of comments, and usually have an option to enable or disable it.

    Probably, the facility is more common in "bigger" compilers; eg MSVC, BCB.

    C51 doesn't support it, either. :-(

    Perhaps you could try using the Borland or MS preprocessor, and compile the result with C166.

    A common reason for using it is when commening-out a block of code; eg,

    /* disabled code
   x = 1;         /* Blah   */
   y = 2;         /* Waffle */
   z = f( x, y ); /* Tripe  */
*/

    In this case, an alternative could be:

    #if 0
   x = 1;         /* Blah   */
   y = 2;         /* Waffle */
   z = f( x, y ); /* Tripe  */
#endif

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