On 2010-09-15 08:44+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I checked this - the MSVC/C++ compiler I am using (reportedly version 15.x > under Visual Studio 2008) does accept // comments. I am sure I > had problems with that before, but they are gone. So, my questioning the > use of // is not important anymore.
Thanks, Arjen, for doing this detective work. >From this evidence it looks like we are free to use // style comments for all our C code. My eventual goal is all C comments will use this style (either through a new uncrustify option or a script to enforce this). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
