Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_* In Comments Considered Harmful

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 1 October 2003 10:29:55 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:19:52 BST, Dave Jones said:
> 
> > Maybe it should be taught to parse comments? There are zillions of
> > #endif /* CONFIG_FOO */
> > braces in the tree. Why is this one special ?
> 
> I think it's because it looked like:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_FOO
> ....
> #endif /* CONFIG_FOO or CONFIG_BAR */
> 
> and it concluded there was a dependency on BAR.

Or rather like this:

#ifdef CONFIG_FOO
...
#endif /* CONFIG_FO */

Problem is that we humans correct the type before it even reaches our
conciousness.  Machines don't do that yet.

Jörn

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