On Thu, 2/28/19, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I've just been tripped up for a little > over the fact that the C compiler barfs if there is > whitespace/comentary before the first #include; the > > I found this curious. Anybody > know what the story is there?
My recollection is that it's documented in the 6th Ed C manual that # has to be in the first column. Beyond that, I vaguely recall something to the effect that if the first line isn't a preprocessor directive, then it skips any preprocessing at all. BLS
