font lock problem in C mode

[Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>]

Put the following C comment into a file, called e.g. "s.c"

/**
 * Simple comment.
 */

and then do:

$emacs -q s2.c

The comment is fontified as a "string", rather than a "comment".  If I
delete the 2nd asterisk on the first line, the font switches correctly
to be fontified as a comment.


Stephen



In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2007-06-03 on notch.damtp.cam.ac.uk
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/raid/bio/sje30/NOBACKUP/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: C/l

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
<right> C-e <left> C-d C-x u C-x C-s M-x r e p o r 
t SPC e m SPC b SPC <return>

Recent messages:
("emacs" "-q" "s2.c")
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