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From: steve@taumet.COM (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: warning: '/*' within comment
Message-ID: <241@taumet.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 90 17:53:27 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.200433.6919@druid.uucp>
Reply-To: steve@taumet.UUCP (Stephen Clamage)
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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In article <1990Jun1.200433.6919@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>/*
>Sample usage:
>	mkscript src/*.c src/*.h src/makefile man/* readme > dist.txt
>*/
>
>This gives me the above mentioned warning.
> [ more about quotes in comments, should they be balanced ]

The standard says (section 3.1.9):

"Except within a character constant, a string literal, or a comment,
the characters /* introduce a comment.  The contents of a comment are
examined only to identify multibyte characters and to find the
characters */ that terminated it."

A footnote clarifies that comments do not nest.

Some compilers allow comment nesting, and warn about apparently nested
comments.  This is not standard behavior.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com