Nested comments in VAX C -- Help!

[Sven Heinicke]

In <VHG+SRC at cs.widener.edu>, brendan at cs.widener.edu writes:
>In <114836 at cc.utah.edu>, RCAPENER at cc.utah.edu writes:
>>if you try  /* outside comment /* inside comment */ */
>>the compiler throws up!
>
> As it should .. no compiler should let that through.
> When you "nest" comments, you have multiple starts (/*); the */
>sequence tells cpp that it's the end of the comment, and it should
>start paying attention again. The second */ is what it's throwing up on.
>

it is bad, I do a string-replace from */ to ^/ and string-replace it
back afterwards.

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