request for C comment stripper

[Ian Cottam]

In article <985 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>In article <5693 at ux.cs.man.ac.uk> ian at ux.cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Cottam) writes:
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>|I usually use a lex script for such things....

>This will cover most ordinary cases; but not this one:
>
>[an include file...] (startcom.h is either empty or contains a /* ).

According to my understanding of the pANS C preprocessor and the
notion of a "translation unit", your example is erroneous as the
comment must be terminated within startcom.h.  (As a practical
man I also confirmed my suspicion with the help of gcc :-) )
However, I suspect someone can come up with a case that will
throw my lex script as comment-strippers always require more
thought than people can believe possible.

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