Nested Comments in C -- A recent experience

[Henry Spencer]

In article <133 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) writes:
>... I think adding nested comments is the wrong
>solution.  Rather, the compiler should always flag the occurance of /*
>within a comment unless explicitly told to shut up about it.  Does anyone know
>what ANSI says about this?

ANSI C (draft of Oct 88) says -- as all C definitions have always said --
that comments do not nest.  Detection of /* within a comment is mentioned
as a "common warning", which is about the strongest thing the standard
can say about it since the standard does not address what diagnostics a
compiler produces.
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