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| author | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2013-09-03 18:50:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2013-09-03 18:50:17 +0000 |
| commit | b5e4fd5a012193853dd32d149cad7969305e4a58 (patch) | |
| tree | 74e5674ca62d956078fe67a6e8d8b39399a29ab7 /doc/README.developer | |
| parent | 4a226911daad922dcdd4e5fc0cdbee626493ee28 (diff) | |
| download | wireshark-b5e4fd5a012193853dd32d149cad7969305e4a58.tar.gz | |
Document the current state of naming in ui/qt. Say it's OK to use C++
comments in C++ code.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=51739
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 0581df56be..4c5a85307c 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -72,10 +72,11 @@ different compilers; here are some rules for writing code that will work on multiple platforms. Don't use C++-style comments (comments beginning with "//" and running -to the end of the line); Wireshark's dissectors are written in C, and -thus run through C rather than C++ compilers, and not all C compilers -support C++-style comments (GCC does, but IBM's C compiler for AIX, for -example, doesn't do so by default). +to the end of the line) in C code. Wireshark's dissectors are written in +C, and thus run through C rather than C++ compilers, and not all C +compilers support C++-style comments (GCC does, but IBM's C compiler for +AIX, for example, doesn't do so by default). C++-style comments can be +used in C++ code, of course. In general, don't use C99 features since some C compilers used to compile Wireshark don't support C99 (E.G. Microsoft C). |