AVR-Chat

Hi guys,

On 4/17/07, kernels_nz <kernels@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> Excellent catch about using comments in defines, it has caught me out
> in the past because:
>
> #define max 100 //largest value
>
> in the line
>
> for (count = 0; count < max; count++)
>
> will turn into something like:
>
> for (count = 0; count < 100 //largest value; count++)
>
> which obviously wouldnt work.

Actually, that should work just fine. Because according to the
language specification comments are supposed to be treated as white
space.

I know that GCC will actually replace comments with whitespace prior
to passing the code onto the compiler. Perhaps other compilers aren't
doing the right thing...

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Dave Hylands
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