/**/ comments were NOT removed. This was probably just a syntax error that was hidden due to a bug in 6.35.

Note that there are (and have always been) very strict rules about /* */

/* MUST begin the line
*/ MUST begin AND end the line

I'll bet you weren't following these rules exactly.

- argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC
- "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"