Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
>> I've been through them. None of 'em turn off // comments. Or #-sign
> On at least some versions of gcc it looks like --std=c89 turns them off
Hmm, I haven't tried that in particular. I wonder what else it does?
> We don't appear to compile with the option on my system however.
Yeah, I was just fighting what seemed to be a similar problem on Mac
OS X. The vendors may or may not check that their compiler handles
all 2^N combinations of switches ... but for sure they don't check
that all the header files they supply will compile under all 2^N
combinations of switches ...
regards, tom lane