- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
- Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */])
+## ---------------- ##
+## Identification. ##
+## ---------------- ##
+
+# b4_comment_(TEXT, OPEN, CONTINUE, END)
+# -------------------------------------
+# Put TEXT in comment. Avoid trailing spaces: don't indent empty lines.
+# Avoid adding indentation to the first line, as the indentation comes
+# from OPEN. That's why we don't patsubst([$1], [^\(.\)], [ \1]).
+#
+# Prefix all the output lines with PREFIX.
+m4_define([b4_comment_], [$2[]m4_bpatsubst([$1], [
+\(.\)], [
+$3\1])$4])
+
+
+# b4_c_comment(TEXT, [PREFIX])
+# ----------------------------
+# Put TEXT in comment. Avoid trailing spaces: don't indent empty lines.
+# Avoid adding indentation to the first line, as the indentation comes
+# from "/*". That's why we don't patsubst([$1], [^\(.\)], [ \1]).
+#
+# Prefix all the output lines with PREFIX.
+m4_define([b4_c_comment],
+[b4_comment_([$1], [$2/* ], [$2 ], [$2 */])])
+
+
+# b4_comment(TEXT, [PREFIX])
+# --------------------------
+# By default, C comments.
+m4_define([b4_comment], [b4_c_comment($@)])