On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:18 PM, <paul.kon...@dell.com> wrote: >> On Oct 5, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 10/04/2016 03:08 PM, Jason Merrill wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Zan Lynx <zl...@acm.org> wrote: >>> ... >>> In GCC sources, I think users look at the function definition more >>> often than the declaration in the header, the latter of which >>> typically has neither comments nor parameter names. >> So true. One could claim that our coding standards made a fundamental >> mistake -- by having all the API documentation at the implementation rather >> than at the declaration. Sigh.... > > Yes, though the mistake started in C and C++ which allow declarations with > only types, not names.
C++ does allow names, they just haven't been added to GCC headers yet. Jason
