Mark Kaplun writes:
Mark> The way I see libsmi, it is a generic tool to compile MIB files Mark> to other formats/langauges, therefor I don't see the point of Mark> limiting the generated format to "formats which do not contain Mark> comment information".
Did you ever wonder what a C compiler does with your comments?
It is quite normal for compilers to drop comments very early in the process. Trying to retain them is not as trivial as it might look like. For example, how do you decide the anchor for a given comment?
The point is that Frank and I do not consider it important enough to preserve comments and thus we dislike spending time on this. If others feel strong about it, please go ahead and write patches that do not add much of complexity (also maintenance wise) and send them to the list.
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