[ESS] Emacs 22 -- much less fontification ..

[Stephen Eglen]

 > BTW: Just today, I've seen another bad example of fontification
 >      in a *.c file :
 >      A /* ......... */ region was 
 >      fontified as *string* - something I've never seen in earlier Emacsen.
 > 
 >   If you want to try: It's  starting at line 81 in
 >    https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Matrix/src/chm_common.c
 > 

Thanks for this Martin;  here's a short example in a C buffer that shows the bug:

/**
 * Simple comment.
 */


Deleting the 2nd star on the first line changes the font-lock from
string back to the correct comment class.  Will file a report.

Stephen