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- Subject: Re: [hatari-devel] Remove C++-style comments
- From: Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:41:40 +0000
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Am Sun, 3 Nov 2024 18:03:15 +0100
schrieb Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 03/11/2024 at 13:17, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > Honestly, I'm not sure whether we should really enforce the comment markers
> > in Hatari like this. Using "/* ... */" was important 20 - 30 years ago when
> > not all C compileres were able to deal with "//" comments yet, but these
> > times are clearly over.
>
> Well, it's just a matter of standard.
>
> - If you decide that Hatari is written in C89, then you must forbid //
> comments, as they aren't part of the standard.
>
> - But if you decide that Hatari is written in C99, then you should allow //
> comments, as they are part of the standard. Except if you want to ban //
> comments for some other reason. Every project has his own rules.
Hatari uses -std=gnu99. And we don't recommend anything in the coding
styles, so both ways of comments should be fine. Thus let's really keep the
comments the way that they currently are.
Thomas