More improvement to comment parsing in ecpg.

ECPG is not supposed to allow and output nested comments in C. These comments
are only allowed in the SQL parts and must not be written into the C file.
Also the different handling of different comments is documented.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
index c629726affe..120d760ba21 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ EXEC SQL ...;
    These statements syntactically take the place of a C statement.
    Depending on the particular statement, they can appear at the
    global level or within a function.  Embedded
-   <acronym>SQL</acronym> statements follow the case-sensitivity rules
-   of normal <acronym>SQL</acronym> code, and not those of C.
+   <acronym>SQL</acronym> statements follow the case-sensitivity rules of
+   normal <acronym>SQL</acronym> code, and not those of C. Also they allow nested
+   C-style comments that are part of the SQL standard. The C part of the
+   program, however, follows the C standard of not accepting nested comments.
   </para>
 
   <para>
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
index 6deef59d53f..f04e34a53de 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l
@@ -394,17 +394,20 @@ cppline			{space}*#([^i][A-Za-z]*|{if}|{ifdef}|{ifndef}|{import})(.*\\{space})*.
 					xcdepth++;
 					/* Put back any characters past slash-star; see above */
 					yyless(2);
-					fputs("/*", yyout);
+					fputs("/_*", yyout);
 				}
 <xcsql>{xcstop}	{
-					ECHO;
 					if (xcdepth <= 0)
 					{
+						ECHO;
 						BEGIN(state_before);
 						token_start = NULL;
 					}
 					else
+					{
 						xcdepth--;
+						fputs("*_/", yyout);
+					}
 				}
 <xcc>{xcstop}	{
 					ECHO;
@@ -861,6 +864,7 @@ cppline			{space}*#([^i][A-Za-z]*|{if}|{ifdef}|{ifndef}|{import})(.*\\{space})*.
 							}
 						}
 					}
+<C>{xcstop}			{ mmerror(PARSE_ERROR, ET_ERROR, "nested /* ... */ comments"); }
 <C>":"				{ return(':'); }
 <C>";"				{ return(';'); }
 <C>","				{ return(','); }