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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Paul Serice <paul@serice.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:24:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060710202412.GA8189@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B2A709.8020500@serice.net>

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Paul Serice wrote:
> If you want to write portable code, you have to take into account
> different operating systems _and_ different compilers.  Writing your
> code for just a single compiler is almost as bad as writing your code
> for just a single operating system.

Hmmm, that was not so much about gcc-specific code than which kind of
C you want to code to, the one from 1973, the one from 1989 or the one
from 1999?  I personally don't have much sympathy for the OS vendors
giving you an older standard C compiler and selling you the up-to-date
one.

  OG.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-10 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-10  6:57 [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead Pavel Roskin
2006-07-10  7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-10  9:46   ` Olivier Galibert
2006-07-10 11:06     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-10 11:41       ` Olivier Galibert
2006-07-10 19:14         ` Paul Serice
2006-07-10 20:24           ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2006-07-10 22:55             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-10 23:25               ` Yakov Lerner
2006-07-10 23:51                 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-07-11  0:15                   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-07-11  0:34                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-10 23:42               ` Olivier Galibert
2006-07-11  5:17         ` Pavel Roskin

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