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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:49:47 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, bde@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_target.c src/sys/dev/mii mii.c src/sys/fs/fifofs fifo_vnops.c src/sys/gnu/ext2fs ext2_vnops.c src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_conf.c kern_descrip.c kern_event.c kern_exec.c kern_exit.c kern_fork.c kern_sig.c sys_pipe.c tty.c ...
Message-ID:  <p06110403bd45de75d3a4@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20040816031820.GA980@green.homeunix.org>
References:  <200408150624.i7F6OhhR074096@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040816014244.GB3026@green.homeunix.org> <20040816015108.GQ991@funkthat.com> <20040816023851.GC3026@green.homeunix.org> <p06110401bd45d111b03b@[128.113.24.47]> <20040816031820.GA980@green.homeunix.org>

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At 11:18 PM -0400 8/15/04, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 15, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  >
>>  In some cases, such as this one, you are removing a blank line
>>  which style(9) wants to have there.  ISTR being told that if there
>>  are no local variables in a routine, there should be a blank line
>>  before the first executable statement.  Looking at the man page, I
>>  think that is shown by the example:
>>
>>  static void
>>  usage()
>>  {
>>	/* Insert an empty line if the function has no local variables. */
>
>That example actually shows there being a non-empty line where variable
>declaration would have been...  I never knew exactly what to make of it.

Yeah, the rule doesn't exactly jump out at you from the man page.
I just remember being asked to add the blank lines if there were
no local variables, so I always add them...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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