ID Number: Q30477
5.10
MS-DOS
buglist5.10 fixlist6.00
Summary:
The C 5.10 compiler does not recognize the line continuation character
in single line comments. For example, the following code extends a
single line comment onto a second line by ending the first line with a
backslash (\):
main()
{
foo(); // this is a comment that \
extends to the next line
}
Trying to compile this code results in several error messages from the
C 5.10 compiler because it is trying to interpret the second line of
the comment as code.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in C version 5.10. This
problem was corrected in C version 6.00.