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In GNU Emacs 19.26.1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3C, X toolkit) of Fri Sep  9 1994 on penelope

I noticed this in Font Lock mode, but I don't think it is a Font Lock mode
problem.  It is also not a problem specific to 19.26.

In c-mode, comment-start-skip's value is "/\\*+ *".  This swallows the
first character of the comment end for comments of the form "/*BODY*/",
where BODY only contains zero or more "*" characters.  Therefore, using
the value of this variable to skip comments will leave you in the wrong
context when comments are of this form.  I think comments of the form
/*****************************************************************************/
are quite common.

To see the effect, emacs -q, M-x c-mode RET, and put the text:

#define foo "bar"
/**/
#define foo "bar"
/* */
#define foo "bar"

in the buffer.  Then M-x font-lock-mode RET.  The third line string is not
underlined (highlighted as a string).

If you set comment-start-skip's value to "/\\* *" fontification works, but
this probably isn't quite what is wanted either.

Si.
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