[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] Multiple inclusion guards in headers

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:29:27PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > This is the second issue id like to see clarified
> >
> > Do we require headers that do not need multiple inclusion guards out of
> > technical reasons to have multiple inclusion guards?
> > technical here is speed, compiler warnings or errors, or spec compliance
> 
> YES
> 
> > My vote is of course, no, as it makes the headers bigger and thus means
> > more to read aka worse readability.
> 
> That's the most ridiculous argument I've heard in a while, especially
> from someone capable of reading and comprehending Intel SSE code.
> 
> Do you have any TECHNICAL arguments for skipping those two lines?

they waste time writing and waste time reading
we also do not add

// This is the end of the file

for the very same reason

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