Re: Coding style on function signatures (was: Convert tasklets towork queues )

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Jul 08 2007 - 06:12:21 EST



On Jul 7 2007 18:49, Jim Cromie wrote:
> forex:
>
> static ssize_t
> store_fan_div (struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *devattr,
> const char *buf, size_t count)
> {...}
>
> IIRC, many like the entire sig on one line, because its grep friendly.
> I personally like the above, but grep-ability is hard to argue against.
>
> The above has 2 violations (of strict-grep-ability rule)
> 1 - return sig is separate

I can only think of one case where it's ok, when the first line is quite long
already:

static __attribute__((pure)) inline const uint32_t
hashfunction(parameter1, parameter2, ...)
{
}


Jan
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