John Voltz wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have a question about comments in the Wine code. I noticed while tracking down a bug that a lot of the code comments are using the block comment marker /*. This is a royal pain when trying to comment out large sections of code where there are a bunch of /* foo */ comments. Why is this allowed? Is there are way around it without having to change them all to //?
Simple answer: We use 'c' comment convention because some compilers choke on the C++ style.
You could use #if (0) and should use this to mark out possible locations for buggy code as it was noted elsewhere. Using /* and */ is not good coding practice to comment out code.
James McKenzie