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> - any sequence of [^*] is allowed
> - a * followed by [^/] is allowed
> The above two can be repeated.
> I think that avoids backtracking.

It will avoid matching past the comment-end, but it doesn't prevent the
regexp routines from pushing stuff on the stack in case we need
to backtrack (the routines are not clever enough).


        Stefan