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On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Andreas Sandberg via gem5-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a change I'd like to make to the gem5 coding style that I believe
> will improve our code quality.
>
> Currently, the gem5 coding style mandates that includes are grouped four
> different blocks (alphabetical ordering within a block):
>
>   * Python headers
>   * C system/stdlib includes
>   * C++ stdlib includes
>   * M5 includes
>
> I propose that we change this to include an object's main header file
> first (e.g., foo.cc would include foo.hh first). This ensures that the
> header file does not depend on include file ordering and avoids
> surprises down the road when someone tries to reuse code. This kind of
> include file ordering is pretty common and is used at, for example,
> Google [1].
>
> Comments/ideas?
>
> If everyone is happy with this change, I'll go ahead and post a patch
> for the style checker and update the Wiki. In order to keep the code
> base reasonably stable, I propose that we only apply this to new code
> and gradually migrate the old code.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> [1]
> http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> cppguide.xml#Names_and_Order_of_Includes
>
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