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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:12:19 -0700
From:      Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Michael Tuexen <tuexen@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336503 - in head/sys: netinet netinet6
Message-ID:  <06745A7A-2E1C-4E48-ADCE-F42447B28A2C@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1532030389.1344.9.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <201807191933.w6JJXhof018383@repo.freebsd.org> <20180719195302.GA26853@FreeBSD.org> <1532030389.1344.9.camel@freebsd.org>

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> On Jul 19, 2018, at 12:59 PM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 19:53 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> +++ head/sys/netinet/sctp_asconf.c    Thu Jul 19 19:33:42 2018       =
 (r336503)
>>>   static struct mbuf *
>>> -sctp_asconf_error_response(uint32_t id, uint16_t cause, uint8_t =
*error_tlv,
>>> +sctp_asconf_error_response(uint32_t id, uint16_t cause, uint8_t * =
error_tlv,
>>=20
>> This looks strange now.  In C, asterisk is usually placed by the =
variable.
>=20
> "usually" may be true of freebsd, but most places I've worked consider
> the * (and & in c++) to be more associated with the type being =
declared
> than with the variable name, thus they get snugged up against the type
> info, not the var name. Putting the * or & with the var name leads to
> particularly bad constructs such as=20
>=20
>  int a, *b;
>=20
> which, for maximal clarity, should be:
>=20
>   int  a;
>   int* b;
>=20

Are we free to prefer the former in C if that's how we've been coding in =
C for 20+ years?
--=20
Devin=



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