On venerdì 24 agosto 2007, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:54:59PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > actually. Personally I'd prefer: > > > > > > else > > > type = OS_TYPE_DIR; > > > > I strongly agree with this style; beyond style itself, one strong reason > > is that joining statements hinder singlestepping through function code > > (it's easy to run gdb on UML, and anyway kgdb exists). > > How does that help? gdb should stop as easily on a "else foo;" line as on > else > foo; > right? Sorry, a better example is on:
if (bar)
foo;
where the test and foo are two distinct parts. One step is "I execute the if",
another (possible) step is "I perform foo" - which is not easy to tell if it
is not on a different line.
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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