[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Say Yes to C++ style comments

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All you need is some autoconf magic to add -xCC if cc is found to be Sun's.
> So this particular compiler is not a stumbling block.
> 
> However, rewriting all C++ comments to C comments is easy, and there
> may be older compilers that do not support such comments at all.
> For this reason I'd prefer to avoid them.
> 

Regretfully, I now agree. I was just hoping that since more than 95%(maybe 99%)
use gcc, we could stop catering to the lowest possible denominator. And how far
back do you want to support old compilers? I think only recent compilers on
target platforms should be supported, unless you're talking about gcc.


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