Q36992: Warning C4067 Unexpected Characters Following ‘directive’

Article: Q36992
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.00 5.10 | 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | S_QUICKC S_ERROR | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 12-DEC-1988

The warning below is from Section D.1.3 (Page 340) of the "Microsoft
QuickC Programmer's Guide" and Section E.3.3 (Page 269) of the
"Microsoft C Optimizing Compiler User's Guide" for Versions 5.00 and
5.10.

This message indicates potential problems but does not hinder
compilation and linking. The number in parentheses at the end of a
warning-message description gives the minimum warning level that must
be set for the message to appear.

The following is the warning:

C4067       unexpected characters following 'directive' directive-
            newline expected

            Extra characters followed a preprocessor directive, as
            in the following example:

            #endif  NO_EXT_KEYS

            This is accepted in Version 3.0, but not in Versions
            4.0 and 5.0.  Versions 4.0 and 5.0 require comment
            delimeters, such as the following:

            #endif  /* NO_EXT_KEYS */

As with Versions 4.00, 5.00, and 5.10 of the C optimizing compiler,
QuickC Versions 1.00 and 1.01 do not accept the extra characters
unless surrounded by comment delimeters.

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