Arduino preprocessing stripping comments when creating .cpp file

[WestfW]

Why has the IDE started stripping comments when preprocessing .ino files to .cpp files in the build directory? This is liable to make disassembly and real debugging more difficult (for those few who do it), and violates the principal of doing as little pre-processing as possible, and I don't see any advantage to doing it...

[Chris--A]

Yup very bad, it doesn't actually do it properly. Give this a run:

//This is a valid comment. \
So is this, but not today!

void setup() {}
void loop() {}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7059549/c-multi-line-comments-using-backslash

[ffissore]

Sorry, this issue belongs to a long list of issue tagged with Component: Preprocessor The Arduino sketch preprocessor converts .ino files into C++ code before compilation

[Chris--A]

Ah, I had forgotten I had a PR fixing the issue I mentioned: #3240 / #956

[ffissore]

Fixed by #3779