Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Document Qemu coding style

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

David Turner wrote:
> Very frankly, I don't think that a coding style, even strictly 
> applied, is going to make the QEMU code
> easier to understand.
>

The coding style is not intended to make the code clearer, just to make 
it more uniform.

> The real barriers to understanding are the lack of structure in the 
> code, liberal use of global macros
> scattered randomly in the source code, exceedingly liberally named 
> functions, and sometimes obscure
> implementation of simple concepts (*cough* CharDriverState), cramming 
> totally unrelated stuff in single
> largish source files (vl.c for the win !), and a blatant lack of 
> documentation comments for a lot of subtle
> stuff in there to explain the magic.

This is the QEMU coding style.

Seriously, what you say is largely true, but the way to fix it is to 
sent patches or to review posted patches.  Nothing else will make a 
difference.



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