49-fyi-fix-autoscan-c-comments.patch

[Akim Demaille]

Index: ChangeLog
from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
        * bin/autoscan.in (scan_c_file): Fix the handling of C comments.
        Before, having a line containing the opening of a multi line
        comment made the whole line be ignored.
        
        
Index: bin/autoscan.in
--- bin/autoscan.in Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:54:00 +0100 akim
+++ bin/autoscan.in Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:43:17 +0100 akim
@@ -207,22 +207,21 @@ sub scan_c_file ($)
 
   while ($_ = $file->getline)
     {
-      # Strip out comments, approximately.
-      # Ending on this line.
-      if ($in_comment && m,\*/,)
+      # Strip out comments.
+      if ($in_comment && s,^.*?\*/,,)
        {
-         s,.*\*/,,;
          $in_comment = 0;
        }
+      # The whole line is inside a commment.
+      next if $in_comment;
       # All on one line.
-      s,/\*.*\*/,,g;
+      s,/\*.*?\*/,,g;
+
       # Starting on this line.
-      if (m,/\*,)
+      if (s,/\*.*$,,)
        {
          $in_comment = 1;
        }
-      # Continuing on this line.
-      next if $in_comment;
 
       # Preprocessor directives.
       if (/^\s*\#\s*include\s*<([^>]*)>/)