Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 26944: /trunk/plugins/profinet/ /tru
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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:33:41 +1100
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> stig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> 
>>http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=26944
>>
>>User: stig
>>Date: 2008/12/09 05:42 AM
>>
>>Log:
>> From Jim Young (bug 3105):
>> Trivial patch to change two C++ style comments to standard C style comments.
>>
> 
> 
> Sh..!
> 
> Sorry for any inconvenience, seems I'm not learning from my mistakes :-(
> 
> BTW: We have dropped support for some platforms in the past 
> months/years. Are there still compilers in use that do not support C++ 
> style comments (they are really nice to have ...)?

Yes there are. The Wireshark suite are C programs - not C++.

There are a number of projects that haven't learnt to ban C99isms and
gcc extensions. They have to be beaten up on regularly. Don't join the
rush to incompatibility.

-- 
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
                -- Dr. Who