On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 15:40, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > I wonder why we use any of .def, .h.inc, .inc.h, .c.inc, .inc.c. Why > not .h and call it a day? No need to configure each and every editor to > tread these as C code.
It says "this isn't actually a header in the usual sense". That's useful for automated scripted checks (eg we don't want scripts/clean-header-guards.pl to add the standard #include header guards to this sort of file) and for humans (if you see one of these files included as part of the normal #include block at the top of a .c file that's probably a mistake; if you see it being used then you know there's likely multiple-inclusion shenanigans going on.) thanks -- PMM
