UHT comment parsing bug

kamrann · August 7, 2015, 11:12am

This is a bit of an obscure one. Also very minor.

I sometimes use block comments of the form

/*/
Some code
/*/

when I want to be able to easily toggle sections of code. UHT is unable to parse this correctly and produces a ‘End of class header encountered inside comment’ error.

anonymous_user_b666e59e · August 7, 2015, 2:22pm

Hi ,

Thanks for pointing this out. The UHT and UBT are somewhat sensitive to comment formatting, and unexpected formatting can sometimes cause problems. I have entered a ticket to have this particular issue investigated further (UE-19772).

I did also discover a workaround. If you add a space, UHT will complete without any problems. Using your example, this works fine:

/* /
Some code
/ */

kamrann · August 9, 2015, 5:01pm

Hi , thanks for registering it.
Actually I feel slightly bad for causing you to find a workaround for something so trivial!
Cheers.

anonymous_user_b666e59e · October 8, 2015, 10:18pm

Hi ,

Just wanted to provide a quick update on this. A fix has been implemented for this issue. If you have built the Engine from source code, you can merge in this commit from GitHub. If you are using a binary version of the Engine installed by the Launcher, the fix will be included in a future version of the Engine.