C99: Suggestions for style(9)

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri May 1 17:58:04 UTC 2009


M. Warner Losh wrote:

[...]
(about return ();)

> 
> It has been an example used for the past 15 years at least as to why
> to do this...  I don't know how many people have actually used the
> ability to do this in code.

I have done so..

> 
> : Also I consider this as gross abuse: Macro names shall be in all 
> : uppercase, so it is clear that there is a macro at work. Therefore 
> : "return" is not a candidate. So this would violate yet another rule in 
> : style(9) (the original return already violates the no-redundant 
> : parentheses rule).
> : Also I would not mention __func__: there were objections against using 
> : it in the past (though I, logically, prefer its use).
> 
> It is a debugging aid, but one of dubious value for a far more
> fundamental reason:
> 
> 	    return;
> 
> will break any macro.
> 
> Warner
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"



More information about the freebsd-hackers mailing list