On 2010-01-21 21:08-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > Hi, Alan, > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 14:03 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> Certainly, the C99 standard supports the >> // style of comments in C code as does gcc. Is anyone here aware of >> any modern C compiler that does not understand the // form of comment? > > I certainly find the // comments convenient, but I recently ran into a small > annoyance on a project with a manually maintained Makefile. I found that I > needed to use the gcc compiler option... > > -std=gnu99 > > ...in order to be able to use // comments and some other "basics" like usleep > and getopt.
I just did a test of a // comment with gcc (without any special options), and it compiled fine. Could you try to confirm that for your version of gcc as well? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
