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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [C source] Inconsistent comments on preprocessor conditionals
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 01:33:26 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6feb2ce2c5e249b74e836edd3ba0c7a0@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335fb4vc7.fsf@gnu.org>

On 2022-07-09 00:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You mean, the comment for the #endif line?  It doesn't really matter
> how you comment that, because both comments tell the same: the
> #ifdef'ed conditional block ends here.  The differences in this case
> are purely stylistic.

The "#endif /* not FOO */" version provides the extra information that
there *is* an "#else" clause -- which might be helpful if the clauses
are spaced very far apart.  If "#endif /* FOO */" is then consistently
used only for cases with no "#else", some code may be (very) slightly
easier for people to parse.

(As that was your recommended approach, this is nothing more than a
an observation supporting that preference.)




  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-08 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-08 12:47 [C source] Inconsistent comments on preprocessor conditionals Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 13:33   ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2022-07-08 13:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 13:55       ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 14:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 14:21         ` Phil Sainty
2022-07-08 16:28         ` Sergey Organov
2022-07-08 19:54     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-11 12:42       ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-08 12:57 ` Po Lu
2022-07-08 13:47 ` Alan Mackenzie

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