Re: __attribute__((always_inline)) fiasco

[viro]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:33:15AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:50:26AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> The // apart from being a C++ ism (screw C99; it's still non-idiomatic)
> >> will cause spurious ignorance of the remainder of the line, which is
> 
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:21:04PM +0100, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Usual Albert's taste level aside, you are wrong.  Comments are replaced
> > with whitespace on phase 3 (tokenizer) and preprocessor lives on phase 4.
> > IOW, that // will never be seen by preprocessor.
> 
> I'll be sure to put this on file with the rest of the numerous "while
> legal in C, never *EVER* do this" oddities.

Huh?  Comments (all sorts of comments) are dealt with before you get to
preprocessing.  Which *is* the right behaviour - anything else would be
much, much messier.  What's the problem with that?
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