["John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Or one could write a perl script to do the checking.  Perl runs on Win32, 
*nix, Mac OS X, etc.

--john

Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> Took a quick look at the portability list, and it would seem that most
> of these things could be checked automatically with a script.  Just a
> series of greps for things like "//", "long long", etc.  Of course,
> whatever script we would write would be platform specific (at least UNIX
> vs. Windows).  But something like this could still be quite helpful if
> we could get developers to use it prior to submitting patches (to reduce
> the load on those who apply them).
>
> Devin
>
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:05, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:48:44PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> >
> > > C++ comments not valid in C source file.
> >
> > Checked in.
> >
> > (Note to contributors: please read the "Portability" section in the
> > "doc/README.developer" file, to see a long list of Things Not To Do;
> > that list includes putting C++ comments into C code, as there are
> > compilers that do not allow them.)
> >
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