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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Block Comments Or Rest-Of-Line Comments?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:23:58 -0700
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Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:
[...]
> And sometimes, when it's not a really a comment, but rather a block of
> code I don't want right now:
>
> #ifdef 0
> ...
> #endif

I think you mean "#if 0".

I use that sometimes, but one disadvantage is that if you're viewing the
middle of a very large block of code, it can be hard to tell that it's
been "commented" out.

I have a script that applies "#if 0" and "#endif" to a block of code
*and* prepends "* " to each line in the block.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
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