From 0a695da7ff63db049bd48e863be69805e44ff698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:51:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (xbm_scan): Allow C-style comments.

---
 src/xfns.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/xfns.c b/src/xfns.c
index 8cc65c4c4f2..b3a8129df52 100644
--- a/src/xfns.c
+++ b/src/xfns.c
@@ -6329,6 +6329,8 @@ xbm_scan (s, end, sval, ival)
      int *ival;
 {
   int c;
+
+ loop:
   
   /* Skip white space.  */
   while (*s < end && (c = *(*s)++, isspace (c)))
@@ -6391,6 +6393,18 @@ xbm_scan (s, end, sval, ival)
 	*s = *s - 1;
       c = XBM_TK_IDENT;
     }
+  else if (c == '/' && **s == '*')
+    {
+      /* C-style comment.  */
+      ++*s;
+      while (**s && (**s != '*' || *(*s + 1) != '/'))
+	++*s;
+      if (**s)
+	{
+	  *s += 2;
+	  goto loop;
+	}
+    }
 
   return c;
 }
-- 
2.39.2