Re: [U-Boot] GCC 7.x vs. C++ comments

Dear Tom,

In message 20180509161456.GM12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com you wrote:

I don't want to have it buried here but maybe it's time to talk about fully adopting C99 (or, GNU C99). Did you happen to read https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/133 that Yamada-san passed along? Having read that after converting the tags that my first regex missed, maybe we were wrong 18 years ago.

OK. You know my opinion.

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is silly. We don't use these in Makefiles, or in shell scripts, or in ...

We sometimes do for Makefiles, almost always do in shell scripts.

You misunderstand. I meant: we do not use C++ comments in Makefiles or in shell scripts, or in most other non-C code...

I drop out of this discussion here - thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk