How to enter C-style comments in cc-mode?

Question

I'd prefer to use C-style comments in C++ sources:

class Dog {
    string name;                /* The dog's name */
    ...
    void bark();                /* Print messages in Dog's
                                   language */
}

However, in cc-mode, when I enter ALT+;, I can only get C++-style comments:

class Dog {
    string name;                // The dog's name
    ...
    void bark();                // Print messages in Dog's
                                // language
}

Can I set the default comment style in cc-mode to C-style?

Answer 1

One way is to set the comment-start and comment-end variables as follows:

(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook
          (lambda () (setq comment-start "/* " comment-end " */")))