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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 02:02:21 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Isaac Waldron <waldroni@lr.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C++ comments in kernel module
Message-ID:  <20000812020221.P48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200008111501.LAA00387@waldron.house>
References:  <200008111501.LAA00387@waldron.house>

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Isaac Waldron wrote:

> I am working on a kernel module for the plex86 vm project, and have run into a 
> small issue with some of the non-OS specific code.  This code has C++ style
> '//' comments in it, which are disallowed by gcc when the -ansi flag is used.  
> Does anyone know of a way to re-enable these comments, and if not, is there 
> any harm in disabling the -ansi flag when compiling a kernel module?

Just don't use those comments, use real C /* comments */ instead.  I
think technically the // comments are legal ANSI C now, but haven't been
for long and I guess the compilers haven't caught up yet.  But no, I
don't think removing -ansi will hurt.

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Ben Smithurst                 / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
FreeBSD Documentation Project /


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