[3227] in Kerberos
Re: system include files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hascall)
Tue May 3 23:23:20 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 4 May 1994 02:56:23 GMT
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
<dewey@MIT.EDU> wrote:
}Yep, it's those idiots at DEC. gcc warns you if you have a /* inside
}a comment, ...
}This is an example of "commenting out" a line incorrectly, the lines
}referenced in your error message were:
}/* #define SIOCSCREENSTATS _IOR('i', 51, struct screen_stats) /* screend */
} That is a great idea in general, and I
}think that the people at DEC should have made their code squeaky clean
}so that it would work, but they didn't.
Huh?!?! That is perfectly legal C. You and the "know better
than everone else gnu-folk" may not like it, but there it is.
John
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John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systems Software Engineer
Project Vincent
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