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Re: agressive fixincludes
- To: amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk
- Subject: Re: agressive fixincludes
- From: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:31:08 +0100
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris
- References: <m2emdhfavv.fsf@magnus.bothner.com>
In article <199911231623.QAA24144@phal.cygnus.co.uk> you write:
>> The first question is: Is there any reason to fix C++-style comments
>> *at all*? If they work for C, C++, and Objective-C, why do we bother
>> fixing them?
>
>It doesn't work for C. It does work for recent versions of Gnu C.
It is in C99 as well.
Besides, fix-includes is used to *create headers for gnu C*, not for
another compiler... so working for recent versions of Gnu C is good
enough.
We don't fix implicit int either, even though these will cause more
compiles to fail than switching // to /* */ ever will...