Hello! On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:41 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > Supporting old, not-standard-anymore compilers has a cost in > maintainability, by precluding the use of better constructs (// > comments, declarations near initialisation, struct initializers...). > Additionally, it gets harder and harder to have people test for them. Sorry for one more addition to this thread. I just want to clear some misunderstanding. The whole point of fixing the comments is to make is easier to test for other compatibility issues using gcc. For gcc to report post-c89 features, "-pedantic -std=c89" should be supplied. This option makes gcc report the c99 comments as errors and other c99 features as warnings. The errors would stand in the way of finding the warnings. I'm not saying all non-c89 constructs should be fixed, but if we get a report that some feature is not working with some compiler, we could compile git with "-pedantic -std=c89", find corresponding warnings and fix them. The comments would stand in the way for somebody using gcc. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html