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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Russell King wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:57:13PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> > +int foo(
> > + long bar,
> > + long day,
> > + struct magic *xyzzy
> > +)
>
> Is this really part of the kernel coding style?

No, but it's better than what it used to be.

Also, while I don't think we should try to maintain 1:1 behaviour with
the _worst_ offenses of zlib, I do think we should maintain comments etc,
and a lot of the zlib function declarations used to look like

int foo(bar, baz)
long bar; /* number of frobnicators */
long baz; /* self-larting on or off */
{
....

and the ANSI-fication changes this to

int foo(
long bar, /* number of frobnicators */
long baz /* self-larting on or off */
)
{
...

which while not according to the coding-standard is at least a reasonable
compromize between having proper C function definitions and keeping the
code _looking_ more like the original.

Linus

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