Re: How to determine if a given line is a C/C++ comment

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
[...]
> There is also the preprocessor to consider.


Yes, in the sense that conditional directives may impact the "actual
lines of code" count. However it would require arbitrary assumptions
for anything different from '#if 0'. I do agree that this complicates
matters somewhat.


> As I understand it, the OP is trying to understand how statement
> counts change with editing, such as through diff.
>
> Consider:
>
> #if 0
> /*
> #endif
>
> I pretty often use #if 0 to get around the non-nesting of comments,
> and would never put a partial comment in a #if 0/#endif block,
> but someone else might do it.


I believe you've got the C/C++ translation phases mixed up. Comments
are removed before preprocessor directives are interpreted, so in your
example above you are missing a comment termination sequence and
possibly an #endif directive.


Cheers,
Nicola Musatti
[I checked the C99 standard and you're right. Comments are stripped
as the source is tokenized, which happens before it handles
preprocessing directives. There may be compilers that do it the other
way, but they're not ANSI C compilers. -John]

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