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Re: Still a lot of C++ files getting "fixed"
On Jan 25, 2000, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> -ansi is specifically documented to be pedantically ANSI; that's its
> whole purpose in life. So, either we should can it, or make sure it
> does what it's there fore.
But it's ok to simply emit a warning and process `//.*$' as a comment.
I bet this would be much more beneficial, in the case of system
headers, than trying to be comply with an old ANSI-C standard. With
the warning, anybody that's bitten by the problem will quickly figure
out how to get it fixed.
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