On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:25:35PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > FWIW, keeping this as much like the upstream sources as possible seems > desirable to me; I'd probably do the C++ comments and leave it at that, > just to ease future merges. But, that's just my two cents.
I suggest asking upstream to accept a patch to use traditional C-style comments, to increase the portability of the library (and to make future merges a no-op). But there's no reason to re-format to follow GNU style rules, as it's an external library.