From 9edf0b7dc8b36700e890ed6ebaa4d8a8e8c7ea7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sebastien <sebastien@ac1d8469-bf42-47a9-8791-bf33cf982152>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:14:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] v4 preprocessor: fixed bug with C-style comments, i.e. of the
 form /* ... */

git-svn-id: https://www.dynare.org/svn/dynare/dynare_v4@1786 ac1d8469-bf42-47a9-8791-bf33cf982152
---
 preprocessor/DynareFlex.ll | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/preprocessor/DynareFlex.ll b/preprocessor/DynareFlex.ll
index 9281f22aa..7cf77768e 100644
--- a/preprocessor/DynareFlex.ll
+++ b/preprocessor/DynareFlex.ll
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ int sigma_e = 0;
                   BEGIN(line_caller);
                 }
 
- /* spaces, tabs and EOL are ignored */
+ /* spaces, tabs and carriage returns are ignored */
 <*>[ \t\r\f]+  { yylloc->step(); }
 <*>[\n]+       { yylloc->lines(yyleng); yylloc->step(); }
 
@@ -93,9 +93,8 @@ int sigma_e = 0;
 <INITIAL,DYNARE_STATEMENT,DYNARE_BLOCK>["/"]["/"].*
 <INITIAL,DYNARE_STATEMENT,DYNARE_BLOCK>"/*"   {comment_caller = YY_START; BEGIN COMMENT;}
 
-<COMMENT>[^*\n]*
-<COMMENT>"*"+[^/\n]
-<COMMENT>"*"+"/"        {BEGIN comment_caller;}
+<COMMENT>"*/"        {BEGIN comment_caller;}
+<COMMENT>.
 
  /* Begin of a Dynare statement */
 <INITIAL>var {BEGIN DYNARE_STATEMENT; return token::VAR;}