Merge pull request #21671 from maribu/dist/tools/vera++/no-length-limit-in-comments

dist/tools/vera++: allow comments to be overlong

Author: crasbe

dist/tools/vera++/scripts/rules/L004.tcl

@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ foreach f [getSourceFileNames] {
     set lineNumber 1
     foreach line [getAllLines $f] {
         if {[string length $line] > $maxLength} {
-            report $f $lineNumber "line is longer than ${maxLength} characters"
+            # ignore overlong line if it appears to be within a comment
+            if {!([string match " \* *" $line] || [string match "// *" $line])} {
+                report $f $lineNumber "line is longer than ${maxLength} characters"
+            }
         }
         incr lineNumber
     }