That change is to avoid compilation warnings like these:

../../../open64/osprey-gcc-4.2.0/gcc/system.h:609:25: warning: C++
style comments are not allowed in ISO C90

This warning appears when using newer versions of gcc (> 4.2?) as the
build compiler.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Sun Chan <sun.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> just curious, most of the change is comments from C++ "//" to C style. Why?
> Sun
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:39 AM, David Coakley <dcoak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Could one of the gatekeepers please review the attached code cleanup
>> patch?  It is intended to eliminate the compilation warnings seen when
>> building osprey-gcc-4.2.0.  Changes are mostly cosmetic; the details
>> are:
>>
>> - Follow gcc 4.2.0 coding conventions and use C89-style comments and
>> declarations.
>> - Correct the prototypes for the mangle_decl hook function.
>> - Clarify "(DECL_REGISTER(t) && DECL_HARD_REGISTER(t))" condition.
>> - Ensure global variable "bases" is initialized.
>>
>> Also, I have not heard from anyone about my last patch, posted one week
>> ago:
>>
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=AANLkTilfr9A_vws0DGwitrIoj6g4eMtRwXCmM_sIGqKF%40mail.gmail.com
>>
>> I would like to request that the gatekeepers acknowledge incoming
>> patches more quickly.  Thanks,
>>
>> -David Coakley / AMD Open Source Compiler Engineering
>>
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