Thanks for doing this, Martin Sebor <mse...@gmail.com> writes: > Martin suggested we update the Coding Conventions to describe > the expected style for function declarations with a pointer > return types, and for overloaded operators. Below is the patch. > > As an aside, regarding the space convention in casts: a crude > grep search yields about 10,000 instances of the "(type)x" kinds > of casts in GCC sources and 40,000 of the preferred "(type) x" > style with the space. That's a consistency of only 80%. Is > it worth documenting a preference for a convention that's so > inconsistently followed?
Just to be sure, does that grep include things like the go frontend and its GCC interface, which deliberately don't follow GNU conventions? A crude grep for me gives 92% consistency in gcc/* itself (excluding subdirectories), although that's still disappointingly low... Thanks, Richard
