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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] GCC 7.x vs. C++ comments
Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 22:44:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180509204416.013A024000A@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180509161456.GM12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com>

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.

> > 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

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-09 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-09  8:46 [U-Boot] GCC 7.x vs. C++ comments Dr. Philipp Tomsich
2018-05-09 11:16 ` Tom Rini
2018-05-09 11:38   ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-05-09 11:48     ` Tom Rini
2018-05-09 12:46       ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-05-09 13:49         ` Tom Rini
2018-05-09 14:11           ` Dr. Philipp Tomsich
2018-05-09 15:40           ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-05-09 16:07             ` Wolfgang Denk
2018-05-09 16:22               ` Tom Rini
2018-05-09 16:14             ` Tom Rini
2018-05-09 20:44               ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2018-05-10 12:07           ` Måns Rullgård

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