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The characters start a comment, which terminates with the characters .

These comments do not nest.

The characters start a comment, which terminates immediately before the next new-line character.

If there is a form-feed or a vertical-tab character in such a comment, only whitespace characters shall appear between it and the new-line that terminates the comment; no diagnostic is required.

[Note 1:

The comment characters , , and have no special meaning within a comment and are treated just like other characters.

Similarly, the comment characters and have no special meaning within a comment.

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