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Re:The Registers of Rust by saurik on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:20PM (#35074205)
I believe you can use a backslash to escape stars, but either way: it took me a while to realize there were a ton of missing stars in this comment that has been conveyed to italics (in case this doesn't get fixed before the edit window times out).
Re:The Registers of Rust by munificent on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:06PM (#35074712)
Oops, sorry about that.

Still waiting for the day that HN supports Markdown for inline code. :(

Re:The Registers of Rust by Jtsummers on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:16PM (#35075515)

  \*
  **
Either one works to get an * into your non-code block text.