On 16 April 2015 at 09:41, Taras Kondratiuk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 04/16/2015 04:29 PM, Mike Holmes wrote:
>
>> We have an 80 char limit that is frequently an issue for strings and we
>> just accept that we ignore the warning.
>>
>> Allow split strings so that there is a valid alternative
>> Thus the following example becomes a legal alternative to the > 80 chars
>> warning.
>>
>> printf("\nThread %u (id=%d core=%d) had %u sync_failures"
>>         " in %u iterations\n", thread_num,
>>         .....
>>
>>
> The reason to have an exception for printed strings length is to have
> them in one line to be searchable in a codebase.
>
> In this example grep'ing for 'sync_failures in' won't find this string.
>

As with Google you just take a portion of the string if you really have an
issue.

I rarely include syntactic elements in a search, in the same way that if
you search for this string verbatim with he specific thread id, core and
number of failures set in the actual string seen on stdout you would not
find the code either.

-- 
Mike Holmes
Technical Manager - Linaro Networking Group
Linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> *│ *Open source software for ARM SoCs
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