Description: ------------ Tokenizer marks all code below /**/ as T_DOC_COMMENT

It literally is just when using /**/ - even a single space will make it work. Sample code: alert('foo'); /**/ alert('foo');

Here is the problem: Process char 14 => / (buffer: \n) => Added token T_WHITESPACE (\n) * buffer possibly contains token, looking ahead 8 chars * => Looking ahead 1 chars => /* * look ahead found more specific token (T_COMMENT), ignoring 14 * Process char 15 => * (buffer: /) * buffer possibly contains token, looking ahead 7 chars * => Looking ahead 1 chars => /** * look ahead found more specific token (T_DOC_COMMENT), ignoring 15 * * looking for end of comment * /* = T_COMMENT and /** = T_DOC_COMMENT Hence the confusion as it never finds the */ it is expecting.

I couldnt think of a generic way of fixing this, so I had to put a specific fix in for it. Tokenizer now shows: Process char 14 => / (buffer: \n) => Added token T_WHITESPACE (\n) * buffer possibly contains token, looking ahead 8 chars * => Looking ahead 1 chars => /* * look ahead found more specific token (T_COMMENT), ignoring 14 * Process char 15 => * (buffer: /) * buffer possibly contains token, looking ahead 7 chars * => Looking ahead 1 chars => /** * look ahead ignored T_DOC_COMMENT, continuing * => Looking ahead 2 chars => /**/ Commit is here: https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/commit/77a430b809ed1a66d46354c91 13011ccf433d5c9