#!/bin/sed -f
#
# Will Hall <willhall@IDT.NET>

# Remove C++ comments
:FindCplusplusComm
/\/\//{
s/[ 	]*\/\/.*$//
N

# delete the newline if there's nothing to it's left
s/^\n//
bFindCplusplusComm
}

# Remove C comments
:FindBeginComm

# find lines with begin-comment
/\/\*/{

# look for (the left-most) end-comment on same line
tz0;:z0
:SrchEndCommOnSameLine
s/\*\//XoXendcommentXoX/
tEndCommOnSameLine
bNoEndCommOnSameLine
:EndCommOnSameLine

# delete first comment within this line
s/\/\*.*XoXendcommentXoX//;tz1;:z1

# look for another begin comment on same line
s/\/\*/&/
tSrchEndCommOnSameLine
bExhaustedBeginComms

:NoEndCommOnSameLine

# append next line to current buffer (strip newline)
N;s/\n//;tz2;:z2
tSrchEndCommOnSameLine

:ExhaustedBeginComms
N

# delete the newline if there's nothing to it's left
s/^\n//

# check for another begin-comment; if none, we're done w/ this line
bFindBeginComm
}