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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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