Re: [INTERFACES] Comment in ECPG - again - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] Comment in ECPG - again
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Msg-id 19990422175340.A948@gmx.net
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In response to Comment in ECPG - again  ("Pavel PaJaSoft Janousek" <janousek@fonet.cz>)
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On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:06:07AM +0200, Pavel PaJaSoft Janousek wrote:
>     But why ECPG know '//' and '/*' and '*/' C/C++ style comments?

// is also an SQL comment. The backend will parse it correctly too.

/* ... */ was added for convenience. After all this is C code. But #include
is CPP code.

>     Somebody wrote, that ECPG translate only exec sql commands, not true,
> when I write this:
> //exec sql ssss

This is not an exec sql command, but a comment.

>     So, is ECPG only ESQL compiler (translator) or complex translator from
> ESQL to C/C++? I think, that ECPG want be complex translator => it may know
> also preprocesor directives....

Please do not mix C/C++ with CPP. After all all CPP commands do not belong
into the C language at all.

Michael
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