linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] PCI MMConfig: Share what's shareable.

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Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:01:04 +0100
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	"Hack inc." <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] PCI MMConfig: Share what's shareable.

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:53:36PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 
> > # git grep '//' -- '*.c' |fgrep -v 'http://' |wc -l
> > 14333
> > 
> > You lost that war ages ago.  Come join us in this millenia,
> > line-comments exist officially in C since 1999, and were supported
> > way before that.
> 
> If I was bored, I might've counted how many /* */ style comments we
> had in the source,

426K or so.

> then used it to construct an elaborate argument why C++-style
> comments are evil and Conformance is Goodness, but I'm not, so I
> won't.

I've yet to see an actual technical argument against them.  I find
them more readable by making it perfectly obvious what their
application range is, contrary to /* where you need to find the
closing */.  But that's just me.

  OG.
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