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[Dominic Hamon <>]

Hi Kavitha

I wonder if Eclipse is using some other definition of GNU style than the one I know[1] as it doesn't look much like GNU style. That has things like braces on column one for functions, structs, and enums, and the C code here has the braces in line with the first line of a block.

The existing code has quite a bit in common with Google standard[2] except for the indent being mostly 8 instead of 2. Let me know if changing the indent is something that you're passionate about as I know many people are.

I'm not sure if GNU indent can be persuaded to speak Google style, but it can definitely get part of the way there.

1. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting

2. http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Kavitha Kumar <> wrote:

Hi Dominic,
 I used the GNU style formatting for the C code. I basically got lazy and used Eclipse to format my code.

 And when I did so, I made a separate commit for the formatted code alone so that it was easy to "number" it with svn.

HTH,
Kavitha

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> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Aaron Brown < >
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> Hey Dominic,
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> On Oct 26, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Dominic Hamon wrote:
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> Is there an existing code style for the c code in ndt? I noticed that
> some of the files seem to have odd wrapping and indenting, but that
> might be a mistake due to merging in the past.

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> I'd like to clean up the code formatting but I don't know what style
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> As long as it's standardized and easy to reproduce, I don't have a
> strong opinion on the matter. My only preference would be to use one
> that minimizes the amount of change from the existing scheme (to
> avoid unnecessary churn).
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> I understand. My preference would be the Google C++ style (
> http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml )
> which is pretty much what ndt follows, except for the indentation.
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> I'm happy to fix up the existing code to the style, but I understand
> that might be too much change 'just' for formatting. WDYT?
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> Cheers,
> Aaron
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