Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK

[Henry Spencer]

In article <9776 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jfc at 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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