On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 3:57 AM Martin Tournoij <mar...@arp242.net> wrote: > > The coding style says: > > > Use /* */ for comments, not // > > Don't want to start a discussion about it, but I'm curious why // is > disallowed? AFAIK all compilers accept // these days, and have for a > long time?
My understanding is that everything in C is block based. You can take all groups of whitespace and replace each with a single space and everything still works (except string literals). Using // for comments adds a line based element. That is why the style guide calls for /**/ over //.
