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authorDon Dugger <n0ano@n0ano.com>2016-06-03 03:33:22 +0000
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@172.30.200.206>2016-06-03 03:33:23 +0000
commitda27230f80795d0028333713f036d44c53cb0e68 (patch)
treeb3d379eaf000adf72b36cb01cdf4d79c3e3f064c /qemu/CODING_STYLE
parent0e68cb048bb8aadb14675f5d4286d8ab2fc35449 (diff)
parent437fd90c0250dee670290f9b714253671a990160 (diff)
Merge "These changes are the raw update to qemu-2.6."
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@@ -87,10 +87,15 @@ Furthermore, it is the QEMU coding style.
5. Declarations
-Mixed declarations (interleaving statements and declarations within blocks)
-are not allowed; declarations should be at the beginning of blocks. In other
-words, the code should not generate warnings if using GCC's
--Wdeclaration-after-statement option.
+Mixed declarations (interleaving statements and declarations within
+blocks) are generally not allowed; declarations should be at the beginning
+of blocks.
+
+Every now and then, an exception is made for declarations inside a
+#ifdef or #ifndef block: if the code looks nicer, such declarations can
+be placed at the top of the block even if there are statements above.
+On the other hand, however, it's often best to move that #ifdef/#ifndef
+block to a separate function altogether.
6. Conditional statements