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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: __attribute__((always_inline)) fiasco
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:33:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040923173315.GG9106@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040923172104.GN23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:50:26AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The // apart from being a C++ ism (screw C99; it's still non-idiomatic)
>> will cause spurious ignorance of the remainder of the line, which is

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:21:04PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> Usual Albert's taste level aside, you are wrong.  Comments are replaced
> with whitespace on phase 3 (tokenizer) and preprocessor lives on phase 4.
> IOW, that // will never be seen by preprocessor.

I'll be sure to put this on file with the rest of the numerous "while
legal in C, never *EVER* do this" oddities.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-23 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-23 16:26 __attribute__((always_inline)) fiasco Albert Cahalan
2004-09-23 16:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23 16:59   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-23 17:03   ` Richard Henderson
2004-09-23 17:21   ` viro
2004-09-23 17:33     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-23 17:39       ` viro
2004-09-26  1:29   ` Tonnerre
2004-09-26  2:05     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-30 16:19       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-23 16:54 ` Richard Henderson
2004-09-23 17:46   ` Albert Cahalan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-23  8:47 Richard Henderson

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