Re: [Doxygen-users] Re: Behaviors of `gcc -E -C'

[Patrick O. <Pat...@pa...>]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:27:25PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:10:12PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> > There are various issues with -C which are not good.  It saves
> > comments within a macro expansion, so that each invocation reproduces
> > the comment.
> 
> I don't remember why we tried to do this in the first place.  Until
> someone can remember why, turning them off again seems like a sensible
> plan.

I really like the idea of seeing the comments inside a macro after
expansion, because we are forced to use C and substitute templates
with some heavy use of the preprocessor. Debugging this is a nightmare,
and comments in the expanded code would help a lot.

I have tried it a while ago with egcs 2.91.66, which didn't work all
that well, but it seems that I should give it a second go with a more recent
version. Please, if you can keep this feature alive, then try it -
it is appreciated ;-)

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Freundliche Gruesse / Best Regards

Patrick Ohly
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