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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Detect comment blocks that are likely meant to be doxygen blocks but aren't.
+#
+# More precisely, look for normal comment block containing '\'.
+# Of course one could use doxygen warnings, eg with:
+#   sed -e '/EXTRACT/s/YES/NO/' doxygen/mbedtls.doxyfile | doxygen -
+# but that would warn about any undocumented item, while our goal is to find
+# items that are documented, but not marked as such by mistake.
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use File::Basename;
+
+# C/header files in the following directories will be checked
+my @directories = qw(include/mbedtls library doxygen/input);
+
+# very naive pattern to find directives:
+# everything with a backslach except '\0' and backslash at EOL
+my $doxy_re = qr/\\(?!0|\n)/;
+
+sub check_file {
+    my ($fname) = @_;
+    open my $fh, '<', $fname or die "Failed to open '$fname': $!\n";
+
+    # first line of the last normal comment block,
+    # or 0 if not in a normal comment block
+    my $block_start = 0;
+    while (my $line = <$fh>) {
+        $block_start = $.   if $line =~ m/\/\*(?![*!])/;
+        $block_start = 0    if $line =~ m/\*\//;
+        if ($block_start and $line =~ m/$doxy_re/) {
+            print "$fname:$block_start: directive on line $.\n";
+            $block_start = 0; # report only one directive per block
+        }
+    }
+
+    close $fh;
+}
+
+sub check_dir {
+    my ($dirname) = @_;
+    for my $file (<$dirname/*.[ch]>) {
+        check_file($file);
+    }
+}
+
+# locate root directory based on invocation name
+my $root = dirname($0) . '/..';
+chdir $root or die "Can't chdir to '$root': $!\n";
+
+# just do it
+for my $dir (@directories) {
+    check_dir($dir)
+}
+
+__END__