[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot Developer's Information

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <200508160831.44688.bwaite at irobot.com> you wrote:
> 
> a per-patch basis, We shoud remind ourselves that the // was adopted as a 
> legal C comment when C99 was ratified. The // style comment can arguably be 

Nevertheless many existing toolchains throw warning messages,  and  I
see no reason to drop support of these older compilers.

> really don't like the // comment ( I know I don't) I think a little more 
> verbage might be in order explicitly forbidding the // comment on the grounds 
> of u-boot being developed under the C89 specification, or just an outright 
> don't do it. Otherwise people will argue this on each patch they develop. 
> You've seen it on LKML so lets make this a bit more clear.

OK, will do so.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
A little suffering is good for the soul.
	-- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0