V6 cc needs hash before whitespace before first include? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Feb 2019

On Thu, 2/28/19, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk at 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