C99: Suggestions for style(9)

[John Gemignani]

Because the logical grouping makes the most sense to the author of the code, not the person who has to learn or maintain it.

Are local variables allocated on-the-fly on the stack or does the compiler preallocate the space on entry? If I have to delve into a crashdump, having the variables on the big entry allocation has been very helpful in the past.

John

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Subject: Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

Christoph Mallon wrote:
>> -When declaring variables in functions declare them sorted by size,
>> -then in alphabetical order; multiple ones per line are okay.
>> +When declaring variables in functions declare them sorted in 
>> alphabetical order;

What's wrong with logical grouping, especially when the new localized 
declaration style is used (so tons of variables are not declared at a 
time anymore)?

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