Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] C++ comments in C source files (gtk/sctp_stat.c)

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:41:39 +0200
Adam Sulmicki wrote:

>
> just of curiosity, is this some ethereal policy to exclude // comments?
> those comments are definitely part of the C standard
> for example
>
>     http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n843.htm
>     see section 6.4.9

Not all compilers will work with that comments and it's only part of the
C standard since 99, but the 89 version didn't included it (hopefully I
remember the years correct).

See doc/README.developer for details how to write code for Ethereal.

Regards, ULFL