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Would you please provide a complete self-contained test case
so that we can reproduce the problem and debug it?

    nil and never has in previous versions of Emacs. If I alter the code snippet
    to (looking-at "/*") then it works (note the absence of the space after the
    '*'). Also, if I place a space character at the start of the line i.e.

Note that "/*" is a regexp that matches zero or more slashes.