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Holger Hans Peter Freyther holger at freyther.deOn 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 at 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.