Stupid luser question

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Petr Vandrovec

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2002-10-01 18:25 UTC #0 lore raw

Quoted 5 lines · On 1 Oct 02 at 19:14, [email protected] wrote:

Just wondering, what is the purpose of the comment /* { */ which is found in various seemingly random places in the kernel:
# grep -F -r "/* { */" *
drivers/video/font_acorn_8x8.c:/* 7B */ 0x0C, 0x18, 0x18, 0x70, 0x18, 0x18, 0x0C, 0x00, /* { */

Body of character "{"...

Quoted 8 lines

drivers/scsi/scsi_syms.c:#if defined(CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING) /* { */
drivers/scsi/scsi.c:#ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING          /* { */
drivers/scsi/scsi.c:#ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING          /* { */
drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h:#ifdef __KERNEL__      /* { */
drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c:#ifndef MPT_SCSI_USE_NEW_EH /* { */
drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c:#ifdef MPT_SCSI_USE_NEW_EH /* { */
drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c:#if 0 /* { */
drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS /* { */

All these are for cooperation with editors which find matching brace/bracket/... for you:

#ifdef __KERNEL__ /* { */
...
#endif /* } __KERNEL__ */

and then you can quickly jump from ifdef to endif and back even in editor which does not know about #if/ifdef/else/elif/ifndef/endif...
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]