this is highly unlikely, you sure you compile THIS code? Shift it by one line to check.


Weijie Zhang wrote:
> Look into the following code a.c, gcc or qcc a.c shows warning of the line begining with !!. Interesting is the 
warning is on the missing of the end " in the 3rd arg in snprintf(). Why the compiler parses the line that is not in 
action? 
> 
> Also, the parsing looks a bit selective: it won't say anything on the !!. If you add a line of garbage, say, aaaaaa, 
the compiler also says nothing on it. 
> 
> Thanks
> Weijie
> 
> ===================
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> void afunc(int status)
> {
>         char buf[1024];
> #if 0
> !!      snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%04x, status);
> #else
>         snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%04x", status);
> #endif
> }
> 
> int main() {
> 	return 0; 
> }
> 
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> 

Weijie Zhang wrote:
> Look into the following code a.c, gcc or qcc a.c shows warning of the line begining with !!. Interesting is the 
warning is on the missing of the end " in the 3rd arg in snprintf(). Why the compiler parses the line that is not in 
action? 
> 
> Also, the parsing looks a bit selective: it won't say anything on the !!. If you add a line of garbage, say, aaaaaa, 
the compiler also says nothing on it. 

This is to be expected. The tokens have to be parsable by the 
preprocessor. Use comments instead.

Regards,

Ryan Mansfield