Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:53:35 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys proc.h Message-ID: <20010928194152.Q52718-100000@delplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109271716250.65838-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Personally I'd like to see something that says like:
>
> "small variations to this rule, for the purpose of aligning
> related fields and increasign readability are accepteble."
>
> and maybe an example
>
> struct foo {
> int foo_a; /* comment */
> struct freddy foo_b; /* Comment aligned as above. */
> union bigwords *foo_c; /* All comments aligned */
> unsigned char foo_chars; /* to allow the eye to scan them */
> /* With overflow also aligned */
> /* the same as above. */
> struct bigstructures foo_vals[NUMSTRUCTS]; /* sometimes you just */
> /* have to bend the rules */
> };
This is a large variation. The small variation is for the "bigstructures"
lines.
/*
* Avoid verbose names and complicated types.
*/
volatile const struct verbosestructtagname
foo_verbosestructmembername[VERBOSEMANIFESTCONSTANTNAME];
Bruce
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