On 01/25/2011 06:19 PM, Dieter Spaar wrote:
Hello Holger,
Hi Dieter,
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:51:02 +0100, "Holger Hans Peter Freyther"
<holger(a)freyther.de> wrote:
Almost perfect. I can apply and modify myself or you could do two things. We
tend to avoid the '//' comments, they were only added in C99 and used to be a
GCC extension for C.
This is a good one ;-)
hehe.
Just out of interest, do we really want to to avoid
C99 ? I know there
is this implicit "kernel style" coding rule, does it include C99 ?
seems to be just kernel style and not really related to C99.
Documentation/CodingStyle
Linux style for comments is the C89 "/* ... */" style.
Don't use C99-style "// ..." comments.
I am just interested in the reasons for using C99 or not.
That is a good question. The only practical thing would be C/C++ interworking
as C++ still assumes a C89 environment, another one is that GCC still does not
default to C99.