Use of templates in c code?

[Diego Novillo]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

> I have no opinion on whether it is better to rename files now or later.
>
> I do think it is better to rename the files at some point.
>
> I would vote for renaming to an extension of ".cc".

Likewise.

One problem I've noticed is that renames seem to confuse svn diff.  For example:

$ cd gcc/cp
$ svn log -r81829 cp-gimplify.c
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r81829 | dnovillo | 2004-05-13 22:29:32 -0400 (Thu, 13 May 2004) | 29 lines
[ ...]
        * cp-gimplify.c: Rename from cp-simplify.c.
[...]

$ svn diff -c81829 cp-gimplify.c
svn: Unable to find repository location for 'cp-gimplify.c' in revision 81828

Annoyingly, SVN is perfectly capable of tracking file movement in the
directory structure.

This may be a problem for archeology.  Perhaps the best approach is to
decide for an extension for new files and leave existing files with
the current extensions.


Diego.