Finding C style comments using isearch-forward-regexp

[Timur Aydin]

Hi,

I am struggling to find C style comments using the
isearch-forward-regexp function (C-M-s). Here is the regexp that I am
using:

/\*\(.\|^J\)*\*/

Basically, I am telling emacs to first find the opening comment "/*",
then any number of any character or newline and then the closing
comment "*/".

However, immediately after typing the * after the closing parenthesis,
emacs tells me:

[(error stack overflow in regexp matcher)]

I have found a simpler regexp that causes this error. This regexp is
part of the one specified above and finds any character or newline any
number of times:

\(.\|^J\)*

Even though this is not a trivial regexp, it is fairly basic and I
cannot come up with an alternate syntax to achieve the same
effect. Please help...

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Timur Aydin