[LLVMdev] Regular Expression lib support

[Bill Wendling]

On Aug 26, 2009, at 12:25 AM, HyperQuantum wrote:

>>> +//===-- Regex.h - Regular Expression matcher implementation  
>>> -------------===//
>>
>> Include C++ marker please (*- C++ -*-===//)
>
> Just out of curiosity, what is this marker used for?

It's used by emacs to tell it what "code mode" to use when editing the  
file. If you didn't specify anything, it would treat the .h as a C  
file. The highlighting and automatic formatting emacs does then won't  
be correct for C++ constructs like classes and namespaces.

-bw