ispell-comments-and-strings

So today I decide that it would be nifty if you could spell-check comments in code, and I discovered the `ispell-comments-and-strings' function. Actually the context was showing a colleague how XEmacs is the slickest thing since icy roads, and how it could do *anything*. Imagine my embarrassment and utter dismay when M-x ispell-comments-and-strings gave me "Unterminated string or comment". ;-) {needless to say, the buffer did not contain any unterminated strings or comments} I've observed this misbehaviour with 21.1.14 on Solaris and 21.1.12 on Linux. Searching the archives I see that Hrovje reported the same bug back in 2000 http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200005/msg00342.html and had a possible workaround. Was there ever any follow-up to this bug report? (Nothing I can find in the archives) There is also a newer version of ispell.el (3.5) available at http://kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html. The ispell.el bundled with XEmacs-21.1. is version 3.3. But the newer version 3.5 still gives me the same "Unterminated string or comment" bug. Is this an XEmacs bug (syntax-table breakage) or an ispell.el bug? Any expert opinions? ------------------------------------------------------------------