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by tom_mellior 2074 days ago
Clang, like GCC, has -C and -CC flags to preserve comments during preprocessing. However, these are really flags for the underlying preprocessor. Your parent might be thinking of some application of the Clang frontend that does not run preprocessing. For example, clang-format will probably not want to preprocess the code nor strip out comments.
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You are correct, my bad.