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Originally Posted by
pludi
The reason is this: correct ANSI C doesn't support the double-slash comments, since those were originally introduced by C++. So if your compiler is very strict about this (and you being on Minix this might well be) it will fail on those.
That's not true? ANSI as adopted
ISO/IEC 9899:1999, and // comment style is supported by ISO C99.
I know, people use to think of "ANSI C" as ISO/IEC 9899:1990, but this is strictly speaking wrong since many years
Cheers,
Loïc