Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead

From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: 2006-07-11 09:51:22
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:25:44AM +0300, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> I am writing in order to ask, whether there maybe
> some c99-to-c89 source convertor that can be
> automatically applied to the .c before compiling with
> pre-c99 compiler ?

Comments are easy.  Moving declarations without breaking initializers
is harder.  Rewriting the struct initializers is pretty much
impossible without the tool turning into a full-blown C parser.

Maybe git can be perfectly happy with c89.  I don't know.  I know the
linux kernel requires c99, mostly for the struct initializers.  My
point was that staying at the c89 level has a maintainance cost, and a
cost/benefit analysis should be done to decide whether it is a good
idea.  Answering "get a C compiler", as is being done for some years
now for people not wanting prototypes, is an option not to neglect.

  OG.

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