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Re: [Bug-gnulib] "# " versus " #" when indenting preprocessor directives
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] "# " versus " #" when indenting preprocessor directives |
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Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:43:33 +0200 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> While we're on the subject of indenting preprocessing directives,
> would anyone object to using this style:
>
> #ifndef POINTER_TYPE
> #ifdef __STDC__
> #define POINTER_TYPE void
> #else
> #define POINTER_TYPE char
> #endif
> #endif
>
> instead of this style:
>
> # ifndef POINTER_TYPE
> # ifdef __STDC__
> # define POINTER_TYPE void
> # else
> # define POINTER_TYPE char
> # endif
> # endif
The former style is more attractive to many people (including me during
my first 5 years of C hacking). The problem is that there are tons of
GNU code using the latter style, and like Jim said today "maintaining a
consistent style of code formatting [is a] very worthy goal".
Bruno