[PATCH 1.12] A coding style for the server

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 19 January 2012 10:25, Guillem Jover <guillem at hadrons.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 14:02:01 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> So, the commit in my coding-style xserver branch is simply the result of
>> running this:
>> indent -linux -bad -bap -blf -bli0 -br -brs -cbi0 -cdw -nce -cs -i4 -hnl
>> -l80 -lc80 -lp -nbbo -nbc -nbfda -nprs -npcs -npsl -saf -sai -saw -nut
>> across *.c and *.h in the X server tree.  No more, no less.  The build
>> seems to continue to work just fine.  Don't be scared by the -linux;
>> it just provides a set of reasonable default options.  Pretty much
>> everything else was just done by hand to match what we seem to generally
>> do in the server.
>
> I had the impression from skimming over xorg code base that most of it
> was using -psl?

Yeah, that's my rough impression too; I'll add that for v2.  (Even
though it is a pretty lame alternative to just using cscope.)

>> It's obviously too big to attach to this mail, so I haven't done that.
>
> It seems indent is not smart enough and produces some space damage. It
> does not seem to be able to handle some unary pointer operators correctly
> and thinks they are binary ones appending spaces after them. It also
> seems to confuse function pointers with casts placing spaces before the
> opening parenthesis. So any such patch might need manual review.

I have to admit that I didn't read the entire patch ...

> Also, defining a global coding style does not mean the code has to switch
> immediately, it could be switched as code gets modfied, which avoids the
> «git blame» barrier already mentioned on the thread if that's considered
> to be an issue.
>
> In any case a global coding style would be extremely nice.

Hmm, at some point you will have to have a flag day though, to switch
everything that hasn't yet been fixed.  I don't think it really buys
us much.

Cheers,
Daniel