SCCS IDs in old code

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Tue Mar 3 19:26:41 PST 2009


On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Xin LI wrote:
> I'd like to know if there would be any objections if things like:
> 
> static char sccsid[] = "@(#)rec_utils.c 8.6 (Berkeley) 7/16/94"
> 
> Be moved into the comment right after the copyright header?  Personally
> I don't see much point keeping 'em just in order to make -DLIBC_SCCS
> work, since these code changes from time to time and the version number
> and dates are no longer relevant, perhaps, they should be better just
> kept in the comment for reference from historical code.

I don't think it matters much either way, but -DLIBC_SCCS hasn't
compiled for a long time, so I doubt anyone will object.


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