Re: Coding style / indent options

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Colin D Bennett wrote:
> Does anyone have a set of GNU indent (or astyle) options that correspond
> to the proper format for GRUB source code? I want to make sure I'm using
> the correct style so that I don't produce spurious changes when files
> I'm editing are reformatted.
> 
> I tried using GNU indent (with the default GNU style) on a few GRUB 2
> source files to see what differences resulted, and I observed the
> following differences:
> 
>                                              GRUB  GNU 
>                                              ====  ===
> (1) Space after unary '!' operator           Yes   No 
> (2) Space between macro name and open paren  No    Yes
> (3) Max line length                          >=80  <80
> (4) Space between __attribute__ and parens   No    Yes
> (5) Keep indenting spaces on blank lines     Yes   No
> 
> I did notice, however, that in some places  (e.g.,
> normal/functions.c lines 84-87) the space/TAB usage is inconsistent). I
> assume that replacing 8 spaces with TAB characters is the desired
> usage (as GNU style suggests).
> 
> I just want to keep the code I modify and produce as clean and uniform
> as possible, and produce clean patches.

Hi Colin,

As you noted it is not too strict :).

So best bet is to follow what you see elsewhere in GRUB 2 code base and 
follow that. Of course one could argue should conventions be followed 
more closely.

Just make it look clean and try to follow most of the rules. We will 
spot them for you if we see the reason :)

It is usually a good idea to review contents of patches beforehand and 
try to keep changes as minimal as possible.

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen