Re: [hatari-devel] Remove C++-style comments

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> Am 03.11.2024 um 18:41 schrieb Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> 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
> 
Well, I don‘t know what‘s the problem with cleaning this up, especially for single // like in the DSP code (only one // in all files).


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