regex for C comments

[Doug Schmidt]

In their book ``Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX,''
Schreiner and Friedman provide the following LEX regular expression
for recognizing C comments:

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"/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
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Ignoring the possibility of overflowing an internal LEX buffer,
does anyone know of any legal C comments that fail to match
with this regular expression?

thanks,

  Doug
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