Use of /* ... */ preferable to //... in STDC Code

The ASF Notices on .c and .h files use // ... single-line comment triggers instead of something like

/* ...
*
...
*/

the only form that some compilers recognize as STDC comments. The use of -Wall and STDC compile options will produce warnings in some products, such as most versions of Visual Studio, clogging the error log with warning messages.

PROPOSAL:

1. Agree that it is OK to change these to /* ... */ when the particular files are touched for some purpose, such as clearing warnings out of a strict STDC compile. Enough compilers warn about this, apparently for down-level STDC compatibility.

(In the VC++ standard libraries, there is a file deep in the Windows SDK headers that has a single //... that annoys me enough to actually fix it in the library. I'd like to fix this with some sort of platform quirk patch but I haven't dug enough into the include-path rules to get that working. Someday soon ... .)

2. Fix these on an opportunistic basis. There is no due date but it would be nice that all new ones be in the universally-STDC form. (Headers and code files that require C++ are another story and they will have different file extensions as well.)

3. Pray that rat, the IP checker, recognizes these notices either way.