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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: code style - my takeRe: code style - my take
From: Joaquim Carvalho <jdc_at_x64.com>
Date: 22 Feb 2003 14:10:43 +0000 On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 08:09, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, TP Diffenbach wrote: > > > Of course, I don't know how well gcc supports C99. But adopting this the > > C99 Standard might well make /de jure/ constructs that are laready /de > > facto/ in Rockbox. > > C99 is very well adopted in recent GCC versions, but we don't want to require > them. We want Rockbox to compile and build even with earlier versions. (Some > of the C99 stuff was GCC extensions already before C99 was set.) > > Besides: code style, format, indentation, braces, variable names etc in > Rockbox follow a general style. The style was set by Björn together with the > original core people, and it has been followed by lots of people without > problems. The style is somewhat documented in docs/CONTRIBUTING. http://rockbox.haxx.se/docs/contributing.html says nothing about // comments not being allowed. I've been using // comments long before I first heard of C++ // is good for comment lines /* */ is good for commenting-out code One or another can be used for either thing but doing it the "wrong" way is harder on the eyes, brain and fingers. Joaquim Received on 2003-02-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |