Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Jun 03 2007 - 10:52:31 EST


On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:29:39 +0100 Al Viro wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:24:50PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
>
> > +Do care when you use Lindent to indent your code, since it may use spaces
> > +instead of tabs before a goto label and it may also align the label in a
> > +wrong position. A goto label should be aligned in the column that is 8
> > +characters ahead of the statement just below this label. Please fix it manually
> > +if you find Lindent is wrong.
>
> Lindent is wrong, but the style you are advocating is, at the very
> least, not universal. Equally (if not more) common is putting label
> in column 1, period. Regardless of indentation level of the statement
> following it.

ack Al's style.

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~Randy
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