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Re: Minor src/xmenu.c change for older GCC versions


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Minor src/xmenu.c change for older GCC versions
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:06:31 +0200

> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 10:00:57 +0200
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > 
> > Please add a comment explaining why this is necessary, to make sure
> > people don't take this out for elegance's sake.
> 
> Good point.  Sorry I didn't add a comment originally.  I thought
> mentioning it in the commit log would be sufficient for now :)

It's actually the other way around: the ChangeLog entry should only
tell WHAT has been changed; the WHY should be in the comments to the
code.  See the GNU coding standards for more about this.




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