Re: [C source] Inconsistent comments on preprocessor conditionals

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 01:33:26 +1200
>> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
>> Cc: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>, emacs-devel@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
>
> No, it doesn't, because the conditional could start with #ifndef
> instead.

Then we can do like the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#ifndef FOO
...
#else /* not !FOO */
...
#endif /* not !FOO */
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Very confusing though.

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Akib Azmain Turja

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