On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM, nathan binkert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally, I agree with Andreas on all points. > I agree with Andreas's points too, just not enough to go convert all our existing code. So again, it's really a question of sticking with the old K&R style for consistency vs. allowing a mix of old and new styles. > That said, I prefer > consistency at least at the whole-file level. So I could agree to > something like, use whatever the file has and if you want to change, > you must change them all in that file. > That sounds reasonable in theory but awkward in practice, and I could see it leading to oscillation when two obstinate people with different preferences both work on the same file. Not that we have any obstinate people among our developers... ;-). Of course, not requiring consistency at all could lead to oscillation too, but at least it would be local. Steve _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
