From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 22:44:15 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] GCC 7.x vs. C++ comments In-Reply-To: <20180509161456.GM12235@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> <20180509124654.BFF71240036@gemini.denx.de> <20180509134905.GK12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> <20180509154052.5E0B424000A@gemini.denx.de> <20180509161456.GM12235@bill-the-cat.ec.rr.com> Message-ID: <20180509204416.013A024000A@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 <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 -- 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 "Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. - Codoso diBlini