Nmap Development: Re: [PATCH] Change C++ comments to C comments in nmapfe and nsock

[Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>]

Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Dec 31 2006 20:26, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> > > > initializers that might happen to be around somewhere. (If I had to 
> > > > judge: go with C99, and forget old compilers.)
> > > When it's something basic and costs nothing (like // vs /**/), why not
> > > have it compatible with older ones?
> > If they _still_ don't compile after changing it to /**/, why change it 
> > at all..
> >
> >
> >      -`J'
> Not all compilers are the same or support the same things. There are no
> guarantees when it comes to this stuff :)
Also, if someone wants to make it work for very old compilers while 
using a newer one to find all the incompatibilities, this makes 
-pedantic -ansi -Wall a bit less noisy.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson () op5 se
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