fixme

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

FIXME
 imp.

   [common] A standard tag often put in C comments near a piece of code
   that needs work. The point of doing so is that a grep or a similar
   pattern-matching tool can find all such places quickly.

   /* FIXME: note this is common in {GNU} code. */

   Compare {XXX}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

FIXME

   <programming> A standard tag often put in {comments} near a
   piece of code that needs work.  The point of doing so is that
   a {grep} or a similar pattern-matching tool can find all such
   places quickly.  This is common in {GNU} code.  Compare {XXX}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (2001-03-16)

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