Re: Alpine: useless-if-before-free: Exec format error

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Your suggestion to use a followup 
> comment with fancy highlighting characters is less useful to my eyes; 
> I'm used to the more-standard convention of a short comment first.

So, what can we do?

Moving the prologue's comment to another file would be bad. Comments
should be very close to the code, otherwise they are overlooked.

Would it help to reorder the file's header? Currently it has
  Prologue part 1 (2 lines with #!)
  Prologue part 2
  Program short description
  Time stamp
  Copyright and license notice
  Written-by notice (needed for upholding copyright, at least in German courts 
[1])
  Program long description
  Code

How about if we reorder it to:
  Prologue part 1 (2 lines with #!)
  Copyright and license notice
  Written-by notice
  Program short description
  Program long description
  Prologue part 2
  Time stamp
  Code

Bruno

[1] I'm referring to the Hellwig vs. VMware judgement.