Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: Check *.cc files and allow C99 comments for C++ code

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 June 2014 16:42, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> QEMU uses both *.cc and *.cpp for some files with C++ code:
>
> disas/libvixl/utils.cc
> disas/libvixl/a64/disasm-a64.cc
> disas/libvixl/a64/instructions-a64.cc
> disas/libvixl/a64/decoder-a64.cc
> disas/arm-a64.cc
> qga/vss-win32/provider.cpp
> qga/vss-win32/install.cpp
> qga/vss-win32/requester.cpp
>
> *.cpp files were already checked. Add the cc pattern, so *.cc are checked
> now, too.

Note that there's not much point in checking libvixl's .cc files,
because we're only going to change these for (a) updates
to new upstream versions and (b) fixes for serious issues
that can't wait for a new upstream version; they're never
going to match our coding style.

thanks
-- PMM