16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
11:53 p.m.
In message 200508160831.44688.bwaite@irobot.com you wrote:
a per-patch basis, We shoud remind ourselves that the // was adopted as a legal C comment when C99 was ratified. The // style comment can arguably be
Nevertheless many existing toolchains throw warning messages, and I see no reason to drop support of these older compilers.
really don't like the // comment ( I know I don't) I think a little more verbage might be in order explicitly forbidding the // comment on the grounds of u-boot being developed under the C89 specification, or just an outright don't do it. Otherwise people will argue this on each patch they develop. You've seen it on LKML so lets make this a bit more clear.
OK, will do so.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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