Strange C constructs

My selfmade C preprocessor stumbled across a strange construct in one of the
Windows headers. Now I would like to know whether this really makes sense:


#define something /##/


I can imagine that the intended effect is the creation of an comment
(// ...) in the source code, but IMO this is not achievable in
accordance to any C/C++ standard. An traditional preprocessor doesn't
recognize the ## operator, and newer preprocessors have to treat
comments before, or during, the tokenization, whereas the ## operator
is executing after tokenization, and there exists no valid
preprocessor token for "//".


Is this construct really a stupid Microsoft extension, intended to prevent the
compilation of Windows code with other compilers, or did I miss something in
the newer C specs?




Another question may be easier to answer:


typedef int (procname)(int arg);


According to K&R only /pointers/ to procedure-types can be constructed. Does
there exist newer specs which allow to typedef procedures themselves?


DoDi

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