Re: [Plplot-devel] A comment style issue

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2010-01-21 21:08-0800 David MacMahon wrote:

> Hi, Alan,
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 14:03 , Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> Certainly, the C99 standard supports the
>> // style of comments in C code as does gcc.  Is anyone here aware of
>> any modern C compiler that does not understand the // form of comment?
>
> I certainly find the // comments convenient, but I recently ran into a small 
> annoyance on a project with a manually maintained Makefile.  I found that I 
> needed to use the gcc compiler option...
>
> -std=gnu99
>
> ...in order to be able to use // comments and some other "basics" like usleep 
> and getopt.

I just did a test of a // comment with gcc (without any special options),
and it compiled fine.  Could you try to confirm that for your version
of gcc as well?

Alan
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