Actually, I just ran into another nxstyle-related conundrum and I don't see anything about this in the coding standard. Regarding indentations, the coding standard says that everything is indented by units of 2, so that all C code begins at column 4n + 2. But preprocessor statements begin with a '#' in column 1 so although indentation remains the same, it shifts by 1 character. Now, the code in arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_allocateheap.c beginning around like 100 throws bad alignment errors: [[[ #elif defined(CONFIG_STM32_STM32F10XX) /* Set the end of system SRAM */ # define SRAM1_END CONFIG_RAM_END /* Check if external FSMC SRAM is provided */ # ifdef CONFIG_STM32_EXTERNAL_RAM ]]] That code consists of #define / #undef statements conditioned upon various #if defined(), with comment blocks in between. These are aligned to match up with the preprocessor statements but because of the '#' shift they are indented by 3 or 5 spaces: $ tools/nxstyle arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_allocateheap.c arch/arm/src/stm32/stm32_allocateheap.c:110:3: error: Bad comment alignment . . . How should this be handled?
Are you sure it is not complaining about the comments. The comments at lines 110, 116, and 116 begin in column 3. That should generate a complaint. In my version of code line 110 is not a pre-processor directive but the truly, improperly aligned comment.