This doesn't make the code uglier or harder to read, yet it makes the
code more portable. This also simplifies checking for other potential
incompatibilities. "gcc -std=c89 -pedantic" can flag many incompatible
constructs as warnings, but C99 comments will cause it to emit an error.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>