warning: '/*' within comment

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Jun1.200433.6919 at druid.uucp> darcy at druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>However I got the same warning.  Is there anything in the standard that
>allows the compiler to ignore the quotes while inside a comment.

There is nothing in the standard that prohibits an implementation from
blathering even about the most perfect, portable code.

>After all, quotes are required to be balanced.

No, they are not, and especially not within a comment.

My advice to you is to tell your compiler vendor that you don't
appreciate gratuitous warning messages, and that
	/*	stuff;	/* comment */
is a fairly common usage for avoiding code generation when the
programmer wants to indication an operation that would normally
be necessary, but fortuitously happens to be already taken care
of in a particular case.