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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Message-ID: <1989Mar13.163731.21908@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1680@levels.sait.edu.au> <1153@auspex.UUCP> <9776@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 16:37:31 GMT

In article <9776@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>>	3.1.9 Comments
>>	  ... The contents of a comment are examined only to identify
>>	multibyte characters ...                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Why?

Because the ASCII code for '*' or '/' might possibly appear as part of
a multibyte character, so the compiler cannot get comment delimiters
right without knowing about multibyte characters.
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