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- Subject: Re: [hatari-devel] Remove C++-style comments
- From: Andreas Grabher <andreas_g86@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:34:15 +0100
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> Am 03.11.2024 um 13:17 schrieb Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> Am Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:06:49 +0100
> schrieb Andreas Grabher <andreas_g86@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> I found more C++-style comments. I did not touch anything inside the cpu directory to keep merging with WinUAE simple.
> 
> 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. We also don't mention it in doc/coding.txt that we
> want to enforce "/* ... */" in the Hatari sources, so I'm inclined to
> rather leave the code as it is.
> 
> Thomas
> 
I don’t think others will mind if you replace those C++ comments that accumulated over the years for consistency. It is more like correcting spelling mistakes. But of course it is up to you.