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

[Brian Waite <bwaite@irobot.com>]

On Monday 15 August 2005 8:15 pm, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>
>     Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small
>     parts in Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++
>     style comments (//) in your code.
>
Only to be contririan, and to get the debate out of the way now instead of on 
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 
called a C style comment by people who graduated college after me. If you 
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.


Thanks 
Brian