<div dir="ltr"><div>Ah, thanks for the explanation. While I'm not yet familiar with the code base, I should have been able to tell myself by doing a quick search for other C99 features, which indeed appear frequently. My bad. Thanks!<br><br><br></div>Arno<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:49:18AM +0100, Arno Bastenhof via llvm-dev wrote:<br>
> As an aside, is there any reason for why C++-style comments were used<br>
> in C files at all, or should they simply be replaced with the usual /*<br>
> ... */ in accordance with pre-C99 standards?<br>
<br>
</span>They are valid C99 and quite a bit of the compiler-rt source is C99,<br>
too. Personally, I don't see any reason why this has to support direct<br>
build with Visual Studio or other compilers that haven't caught up with<br>
a 16 year old standard.<br>
<br>
Joerg<br>
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