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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:13:25 +0100
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On 18 April 2017 at 11:07, Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Aren't comments like
>
> //
> // Table header
> //
>
> ,
>
> //
> // Definition for ID mapping table shared by all node types
> //
>
> etc.  not allowed according to EDK II C Coding Standards Specification?
>
> 6.2.3 Avoid comments where the opening comment characters are alone on a
> line.
>
> //
>
> // VIOLATION: Horror Vacui
>
> //
>

You must be joking

$ git grep -E '/\*\*\s$' MdePkg/ MdeModulePkg/ |wc -l
16193

IOW, there are more than 16000 occurrences of opening comment
characters alone on a line in MdePkg+MdeModulePkg only