Synopsis

Appearances of /* inside comments

Enabled by default

Yes

Severity/Certainty

Low/High

Full description

Appearances of /* inside comments. C does not support nesting of comments. This can cause confusion when some code does not execute as expected. For example: /* A comment, end comment marker accidentally omitted <<New Page>> initialize(X); /* this comment is not compliant */ In this case, X will not be initialized because the code is hidden in a comment. This check is identical to MISRAC2004-2.3, MISRAC++2008-2-7-1, MISRAC++2023-5.7.1.

Coding standards

Code examples

The following code example fails the check and will give a warning:

void example(void) {
	/* This comment starts here
	/* Nested comment starts here
	*/
}

The following code example passes the check and will not give a warning about this issue:

void example(void) {
	/* This comment starts here */
	/* Nested comment starts here
	*/
}