From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:24:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid C++ comments, use C comments instead
Message-ID: <20060710202412.GA8189@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <44B2A709.8020500@serice.net>

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Paul Serice wrote:
> If you want to write portable code, you have to take into account
> different operating systems _and_ different compilers.  Writing your
> code for just a single compiler is almost as bad as writing your code
> for just a single operating system.

Hmmm, that was not so much about gcc-specific code than which kind of
C you want to code to, the one from 1973, the one from 1989 or the one
from 1999?  I personally don't have much sympathy for the OS vendors
giving you an older standard C compiler and selling you the up-to-date
one.

  OG.