[U-Boot] GCC 7.x vs. C++ comments

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Tom,

In message <20180509161456.GM12235 at 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

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