size_t n;
/* It would be best if we could process literal text at high speed. To
- * this end,
+ * this end, we have a table, indexed by the low-order bits of F, to tell
+ * us which special characters we need to stop at. This way, we can use
+ * `strcspn' to skip over literal text and stop at the next character which
+ * needs special handling. Entries in this table with a null pointer
+ * correspond to impossible flag settings.
*/
static const char *const delimtab[] = {