[kaffe] #if 0

[Greg Wooledge]

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Rob Gonzalez (rgonzale@wso.williams.edu) wrote:

> In kaffe/kaffevm/exceptions.c, around throwOutOfMemory there is a "#if
> 0" preprocessing block...what exactly does "#if 0" mean?

Everything between "#if 0" and "#endif" (or "#else") will be ignored
by the C compiler.  It's a common way to comment out a huge block
of code, even if that block contains /* comments */ of its own.

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