Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:33:15 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>,
       linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: __attribute__((always_inline)) fiasco
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:50:26AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The // apart from being a C++ ism (screw C99; it's still non-idiomatic)
>> will cause spurious ignorance of the remainder of the line, which is

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:21:04PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> Usual Albert's taste level aside, you are wrong.  Comments are replaced
> with whitespace on phase 3 (tokenizer) and preprocessor lives on phase 4.
> IOW, that // will never be seen by preprocessor.

I'll be sure to put this on file with the rest of the numerous "while
legal in C, never *EVER* do this" oddities.


-- wli
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