lame feature request: option to disable multiline C++ comments

[Eric W. Biederman]

john@nanaon-sha.co.jp (John Belmonte) writes:

> Why would this be useful?  Say if double-byte encoded characters are being used
> for code
> 
> comments, and the 2nd byte of the last character in a '//' comment happens to be
> a \.
> 
> Specifically this happens often for Japanese comments encoded in Shift-JIS or
> EUC.  The usual
> 
> workaround is to add a non-offending character at the end of the line when the
> error comes up.
> 
> 
> I'm aware of other workarounds and also "-Wcomment"... just wondering if there
> is any demand out
> 
> there for such an option.

Hmm.  I would think the correct fix would be to teach gcc to deal with multibyte
encoded text files.  The C API is standard.  And then you get correct '//' comment
handling as well as mutibyte character constants.

Eric