Re: Feature freeze for 1.0.3

From: Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 10:56:36 PDT

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[Steve Underwood]
> Why do people repeatedly call them C++ style comments? They have
> been ANSI/ISO C comments since the very first revision of the
> standard. They are C comments. What compiler complains about them?

They first appeared in C++, and there are ANSI C compilers who refuses
to compile source using // as a comment marker. The last one is
enough to ban them from the SANE source.

I do not remember the details, but I believe some versions of the
native compiler on Irix refuses to compile them. The names and
platforms are not as important. They exists and we must take them
into account.

-- ##> Petter Reinholdtsen <## | pere@td.org.uit.no

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