diff --git a/engine/qclib/qcc.h b/engine/qclib/qcc.h
index ef2a3b6eb..80bfcdab5 100644
--- a/engine/qclib/qcc.h
+++ b/engine/qclib/qcc.h
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ enum {
 	WARN_PRECOMPILERMESSAGE,
 	WARN_TOOMANYPARAMETERSFORFUNC,
 	WARN_TOOMANYPARAMETERSVARARGS,
+	WARN_NESTEDCOMMENT,
 	WARN_STRINGTOOLONG,
 	WARN_BADTARGET,
 	WARN_BADPRAGMA,
diff --git a/engine/qclib/qcc_pr_lex.c b/engine/qclib/qcc_pr_lex.c
index 814bb84a4..5565989fc 100644
--- a/engine/qclib/qcc_pr_lex.c
+++ b/engine/qclib/qcc_pr_lex.c
@@ -2417,6 +2417,8 @@ void QCC_PR_LexWhitespace (pbool inhibitpreprocessor)
 					pr_file_p++;
 					return;
 				}
+				if (pr_file_p[0] == '/' && pr_file_p[1] == '*')
+					QCC_PR_ParseWarning(WARN_NESTEDCOMMENT, "\"/*\" inside comment");
 			} while (pr_file_p[0] != '*' || pr_file_p[1] != '/');
 			pr_file_p+=2;
 			continue;
@@ -4148,6 +4150,8 @@ pbool QCC_PR_CheckTokenComment(const char *string, char **comment)
 						QCC_PR_ParseError(0, "EOF inside comment\n");
 						break;
 					}
+					if (pr_file_p[0] == '/' && pr_file_p[1] == '*')
+						QCC_PR_ParseWarning(WARN_NESTEDCOMMENT, "\"/*\" inside comment");
 				} while (pr_file_p[0] != '*' || pr_file_p[1] != '/');
 
 				if (pr_file_p[1] == 0)
@@ -5065,7 +5069,14 @@ QCC_type_t *QCC_PR_ParseType (int newtype, pbool silentfail)
 		return QCC_PR_FindType (newt);
 	}
 
-	name = QCC_PR_CheckCompConstString(pr_token);
+	name = pr_token;
+	if (pr_token_type != tt_name)
+	{
+		if (silentfail)
+			return NULL;
+		QCC_PR_ParseError (ERR_NOTATYPE, "\"%s\" is not a type", name);
+	}
+//	name = QCC_PR_CheckCompConstString(name);
 
 	//accessors
 	if (QCC_PR_CheckKeyword (keyword_class, "accessor"))
diff --git a/engine/qclib/qccmain.c b/engine/qclib/qccmain.c
index b608f37fe..612a9e6c1 100644
--- a/engine/qclib/qccmain.c
+++ b/engine/qclib/qccmain.c
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ struct {
 	{" F322", WARN_IFSTRING_USED},
 	{" F323", WARN_UNREACHABLECODE},
 	{" F324", WARN_FORMATSTRING},
+	{" F325", WARN_NESTEDCOMMENT},
 
 	{" F207", WARN_NOTREFERENCEDFIELD},
 	{" F208", WARN_NOTREFERENCEDCONST},
@@ -4157,7 +4158,7 @@ void QCC_PR_CommandLinePrecompilerOptions (void)
 				keyword_state = true;
 			else if (!strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "fteqcc"))
 				;	//as above, its the default.
-			else if (!strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "id"))
+			else if (!strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "qcc") || !strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "id"))
 			{
 				flag_ifvector = flag_vectorlogic = false;
 
@@ -4170,6 +4171,21 @@ void QCC_PR_CommandLinePrecompilerOptions (void)
 				keyword_thinktime = keyword_until = keyword_loop = false;
 				keyword_wrap = keyword_weak = false;
 			}
+			else if (!strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "hcc") || !strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "hexenc"))
+			{
+				flag_ifvector = flag_vectorlogic = false;
+
+				keyword_asm = keyword_continue = keyword_for = keyword_goto = false;
+				keyword_const = keyword_var = keyword_inout = keyword_optional = keyword_state = keyword_inline = keyword_nosave = keyword_extern = keyword_shared = keyword_noref = keyword_unused = keyword_used = keyword_static = keyword_nonstatic = keyword_ignore = keyword_strip = false;
+				keyword_class = keyword_const = false;
+
+				keyword_vector = keyword_entity = keyword_float = keyword_string = false;	//not to be confused with actual types, but rather the absence of the keyword local.
+				keyword_int = keyword_integer = keyword_typedef = keyword_struct = keyword_union = keyword_enum = keyword_enumflags = false;
+				keyword_wrap = keyword_weak = false;
+
+				keyword_thinktime = keyword_until = keyword_loop = true;
+				keyword_switch = keyword_case = keyword_default = keyword_break = true;
+			}
 			else if (!strcmp(myargv[i]+5, "gmqcc"))
 			{
 				flag_ifvector = flag_vectorlogic = true;