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by sputnik27 3818 days ago
Oh, god, so awful. All those ifdefs..

Funny: Tried to find the comment commenting it out. I found it. #IF 0. Wow.
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jff 3818 days ago
That's a pretty standard way to comment out a huge chunk of code, because /* */ will get screwed up if there's another comment using the same convention inside, and putting // in front of every single line looks bad/makes copying code around painful.

#if 0 is also a convenient way to flip bits of test/debug code on and off.

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provemewrong 3818 days ago
That's actually neat! Haven't touched C/C++ beyond university and didn't know about that.
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kbart 3818 days ago 

  #if 0 <...> #else <...> #endif
Is a pretty standard way to switch between new/old code while refactoring to check if behavior/output matches. Just change 0 to 1 to switch between "versions".
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