Re: clang 21.1.8 squawks about `/*` nested within "mbiter-aux.c" comment

Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:40:52 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I think the question mark takes away from the aesthetics.
>
> I'm used to 'ls -l .??*' for showing the hidden files in a directory.
> Wildcards and regexes are not aesthetic, no...

But this is technical writing, not shell wildcards meant to be
interpreted by a parser.

> > How about using a non-breaking space (nbsp) instead of a question mark?
>
> An nbsp or zwnj would not work, after copy&paste into a command line.

Another option is to use backslashes instead of forward slashes.  That
should keep the compiler gods happy.

    See libiconv\tests\*.TXT for all the mapping tables.

Jeff