Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: Mention preferred comment form

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> Our defacto coding style strongly prefers /* */ style comments
> over the single-line // style, and checkpatch enforces this,
> but we don't actually document this. Mention it in CODING_STYLE.
>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  CODING_STYLE | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
> index f53180b..2fa0c0b 100644
> --- a/CODING_STYLE
> +++ b/CODING_STYLE
> @@ -116,3 +116,10 @@ if (a == 1) {
>  Rationale: Yoda conditions (as in 'if (1 == a)') are awkward to read.
>  Besides, good compilers already warn users when '==' is mis-typed as '=',
>  even when the constant is on the right.
> +
> +7. Comment style
> +
> +We use traditional C-style /* */ comments and avoid // comments.
> +
> +Rationale: The // form is valid in C99, so this is purely a matter of
> +consistency of style. The checkpatch script will warn you about this.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>