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From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Michal Rokos <rokos@nextsoft.cz>, GIT <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Honor HP C's noreturn attribute
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 20:26:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=FPkccc3Rk3YDuEsN3YGt_U1NhhT2MGHmbrAra@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4o7dfndw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Michal Rokos <rokos@nextsoft.cz> writes:
>
>> HP C for Integrity servers (Itanium) gained support for noreturn
>> attribute sometime in 2006. It was released in Compiler Version A.06.10
>> and made available in July 2006.
>>
>> The __HP_cc define detects the HP C compiler version. Precede the
>> __GNUC__ check so it works well when compiling with HP C using -Agcc
>> option that enables partial support for the GNU C dialect. The -Agcc
>> defines the __GNUC__ too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Rokos <michal.rokos@nextsoft.cz>
>
> We tend to prefer new code be appended at the end of if/elif/.../then/fi
> cascade when there is no strong reason to do otherwise; your log message
> clearly explains why this particular #if needs to come before the existing
> one.
>
> I love it when people write a very readable log message to explain why the
> patch _has_ to be the way it is.  Very good job.

I liked it too, but it'd be even better to put the comment in the code IMO.
I don't think anyone would check the commit to see if he can change the
order of the #ifdefs ...

(So please comment in code more!)


-- 
Piotr Krukowiecki

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 12:13 [PATCH] Honor HP C's noreturn attribute Michal Rokos
2011-03-08 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08 19:26   ` Piotr Krukowiecki [this message]
2011-03-08 22:09   ` Michal Rokos

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