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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: warning: '/*' within comment
Message-ID: <13040@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Jun 90 20:24:13 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.200433.6919@druid.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Jun1.200433.6919@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>However I got the same warning.  Is there anything in the standard that
>allows the compiler to ignore the quotes while inside a comment.

There is nothing in the standard that prohibits an implementation from
blathering even about the most perfect, portable code.

>After all, quotes are required to be balanced.

No, they are not, and especially not within a comment.

My advice to you is to tell your compiler vendor that you don't
appreciate gratuitous warning messages, and that
	/*	stuff;	/* comment */
is a fairly common usage for avoiding code generation when the
programmer wants to indication an operation that would normally
be necessary, but fortuitously happens to be already taken care
of in a particular case.