On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:15:11 +0100
Alistair John Strachan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 19:16:20 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> [snip]
> > > WARNING: declaring multiple variables together should be avoided
> > > #372: FILE: drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c:246:
> > > + unsigned int mctrl, status;
> >
> > Well, this is probably superfluous -- why would anyone prefer:
> >
> > int r0;
> > int r1;
> > int r2;
> > int r3;
> > int r4;
> >
> > to:
> >
> > int r0, r1, r2, r3, r4;
> >
> > unconditionally?
>
> Imagine you're working on a piece of kernel code that has a lot of parallel
> churn. Conflicts on lines like "int a,b,c,d;" are more likely to cause Andrew
> et al pain, which I guess is the rationale for discouraging it. Conversely,
> if the variables are kept separate, diff handles it fine.
That, plus the first style leaves room for useful code comments. The lack
of which is often a maintainability bug.
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