On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:02:10 +0100, Alain CULOS
<ZAl### [at] bigfootcom> wrote:

>"Ronald L. Parker" wrote:
>
>> BTW, I have a minor bone to pick with you.  Please don't use // to
>> comment things in your code.  GCC doesn't like it, and many other C
>> compilers don't either.
>
>Ron,
>I do not understand this tip you're giving, could you expand a bit more, please ?
>I use GCC myself, although not proficiently yet and found no problem with //, maybe
that
>is exactly where I am getting problems I am not able to analyse properly.
>By the way, // is meant to be C++ only and not C. Is this what you meant ?

Yes.  I was giving the tip specifically to Jon, because his unipatch
has a few lines commented with // in what is supposed to be a .C file.
egcs 1.1.1 doesn't like that (It reports an error) so I had to change
all his comments to compile on Linux.

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