On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:27:25PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:10:12PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
There are various issues with -C which are not good. It saves comments within a macro expansion, so that each invocation reproduces the comment.
I don't remember why we tried to do this in the first place. Until someone can remember why, turning them off again seems like a sensible plan.
I really like the idea of seeing the comments inside a macro after expansion, because we are forced to use C and substitute templates with some heavy use of the preprocessor. Debugging this is a nightmare, and comments in the expanded code would help a lot.
I have tried it a while ago with egcs 2.91.66, which didn't work all that well, but it seems that I should give it a second go with a more recent version. Please, if you can keep this feature alive, then try it - it is appreciated ;-)