Re: [linuxdc-dev]Patch for sound driver

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Saturday 26 Jan 2002 11:25 pm, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:12:40PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > How about replacing all those C++-comments with C-comments?
> > > Not that they bother GCC, but it's just not right to use
> > > C++-comments in C-code...
> >
> > The comments are perfectly good C comments. See the C99 standard.
>
> C99 compliant, perhaps. Strict ANSI compliant on the other hand... not even
> close. C99 allows for all sorts of stupidities, most of which have no place
> in the kernel IMO.
>
> As a good practice, try building w/ -Werror -ansi to your CFLAGS and see
> how compliant your code is. (large portions of the kernel fail with this,
> but that doesn't make it "clean" or "proper").
>
> Regards,

So American standards institute doesn't like it? Come on. :->

Standards are standards. End of story.

Adrian

PS The driver also uses the recommended C99 typing too.