11# scc-snapshots
22SCC: Strip C Comments — Snapshots
33
4- This repository contains the code for the SCC (Strip C Comments) program described in
5- [ Remove Comments from C/C++ Code] ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394017/ ) on Stack Overflow.
4+ This repository contains the code for the SCC (Strip C Comments) program
5+ described in [ Remove Comments from C/C++
6+ Code] ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394017/ ) on Stack Overflow.
67
78There are currently 7 releases:
9+ * 6.80 (2017-10-26) - stable release
810* 6.70 (2017-10-17) - stable release
911* 6.60 (2016-06-12) - stable release
1012* 6.50 (2016-06-12) — pre-release
@@ -15,25 +17,15 @@ There are currently 7 releases:
1517
1618These are tagged release/x.yz. The code is all on branch master.
1719
18- Versions 4.03 and 4.04 are preliminary versions, possibly of historical
19- interest.
20- Functionally, they're almost identical, with minor code cleanups between
21- the two versions.
22- The meaning of the ` -C ` option was the opposite of the more modern
23- versions; it enabled the removal of C++ style comments.
20+ ### Version 6.80 - 2017-10-26
2421
25- Version 5.05 handles C and older C++ code.
26- It does not understand raw strings, or some of the other new features in
27- C++ (binary constants, punctuation in numbers, etc.).
28- Compared to the earlier versions, it adds the ` -s str ` and ` -q rep `
29- options to replace the bodies of strings or character literals; it adds
30- the ` -c ` option to print the comments instead of the code; it adds the
31- ` -n ` option to preserve newlines in comments, to make it easier to
32- back-track from stripped source to the original code.
22+ Version 6.80 changes some of the testing technology because RHEL 5.3
23+ (sigh!) has a version of Bash that does not recognize process
24+ substitution (` <(cmd args) ` notation).
25+ Three test scripts failed.
26+ The product source was unchanged.
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34- Version 6.60 handles C and newer C++ code.
35- It understands raw strings, binary constants and punctuation in numbers.
36- It has a different, slightly more complex interface compared with version 5.05.
28+ ### Version 6.70 - 2017-10-17
3729
3830Version 6.70 provides some occasionally useful new functionality.
3931The ` -e ` option emits empty comments ` /* */ ` or ` // ` (followed by a
@@ -44,7 +36,37 @@ of comments.
4436This makes the output (much) easier to read.
4537The flags (` -f ` ) option has more systematic names for the features.
4638
39+ ### Version 6.60 - 2016-06-12
40+
41+ Version 6.60 handles C and newer C++ code.
42+ It understands raw strings, binary constants and punctuation in numbers.
43+ It has a different, slightly more complex interface compared with version 5.05.
44+
45+ ### Version 5.05 - 2012-01-23
46+
47+ Version 5.05 handles C and older C++ code.
48+ It does not understand raw strings, or some of the other new features in
49+ C++ (binary constants, punctuation in numbers, etc.).
50+ Compared to the earlier versions, it adds the ` -s str ` and ` -q rep `
51+ options to replace the bodies of strings or character literals; it adds
52+ the ` -c ` option to print the comments instead of the code; it adds the
53+ ` -n ` option to preserve newlines in comments, to make it easier to
54+ back-track from stripped source to the original code.
55+
56+ ### Version 4.04 - 2008-11-27
57+ ### Version 4.03 - 2008-06-07
58+
59+ Versions 4.03 and 4.04 are preliminary versions, possibly of historical
60+ interest.
61+ Functionally, they're almost identical, with minor code cleanups between
62+ the two versions.
63+ The meaning of the ` -C ` option was the opposite of the more modern
64+ versions; it enabled the removal of C++ style comments.
65+
66+ ## Digraphs and trigraphs
67+
4768No version of SCC handles trigraphs (and no version needs to handle
4869digraphs).
4970There are separate programs for adding or removing trigraphs and
5071digraphs (called, unimaginatively, ` trigraphs ` and ` digraphs ` ).
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