Modernised comment handling: text following \" is thrown away before

either parser is invoked.  Single-dot lines correctly handled.  This
confirms with both new- and old-groff.  "Comment" subsection added to
mdoc.7 and man.7.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mdoc.c b/mdoc.c
index 895bc44f..cb3f7ff7 100644
--- a/mdoc.c
+++ b/mdoc.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ parsemacro(struct mdoc *m, int ln, char *buf)
 	int		  i, c;
 	char		  mac[5];
 
-	/* Comments and empties are quickly ignored. */
+	/* Empty lines are ignored. */
 
 	if (0 == buf[1])
 		return(1);
@@ -671,10 +671,6 @@ parsemacro(struct mdoc *m, int ln, char *buf)
 		return(perr(m, ln, 1, ESPACE));
 	}
 
-	if (buf[1] && '\\' == buf[1])
-		if (buf[2] && '\"' == buf[2])
-			return(1);
-
 	/* Copy the first word into a nil-terminated buffer. */
 
 	for (i = 1; i < 5; i++) {