Subject: RE: a new KNF (and some comments)
To: Christian E. Hopps <chopps@merit.edu>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
List: tech-misc
Date: 01/22/2000 17:03:55
> Whats wrong with
>
> /*
>  * logn returns the log base `b' of the value `v'.
>  */
> static float
> logn(int v, int b)
> {
> }

First: that comment is never going to be changed when the parameters change.
Second, (I realize that this doesn't apply to the NetBSD kernel source now)
automatic documentation extractors have a hard time parsing it.


Martin