From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 14:46:54 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] GCC 7.x vs. C++ comments In-Reply-To: <20180509114828.GG12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> References: <5B756B92-A9EE-4227-9D8E-887F6E8E1597@theobroma-systems.com> <20180509111627.GD12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> <20180509113837.59F33240036@gemini.denx.de> <20180509114828.GG12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> Message-ID: <20180509124654.BFF71240036@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Tom, In message <20180509114828.GG12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> you wrote: > > We should go and update [1] to note some special exemptions to the rule. I'm not happy about this. > I see you missed out on the SPDX thread over here: > https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-May/327544.html and repeat Marek already said what was on my mind, and got ignored. Would it have changed anything if I had posted another complaint? I'm doing now, and apparently I get ignored, too. So what exactly is your argument? > myself, I see it as more worthwhile to (a) follow the kernel in this > area (for both tooling and consistency and ease of development for our > overlapping community) (b) save space (in just about every conversion we > went from 2 lines to 1 line). Thanks! OK, so you decided, and any additional discussion is futile... Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to stu- dents that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - Dijkstra