Because the logical grouping makes the most sense to the author of the code, not the person who has to learn or maintain it.
Are local variables allocated on-the-fly on the stack or does the compiler preallocate the space on entry? If I have to delve into a crashdump, having the variables on the big entry allocation has been very helpful in the past. John -----Original Message----- From: deeptec...@gmail.com <deeptec...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:23 AM To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9) Christoph Mallon wrote: >> -When declaring variables in functions declare them sorted by size, >> -then in alphabetical order; multiple ones per line are okay. >> +When declaring variables in functions declare them sorted in >> alphabetical order; What's wrong with logical grouping, especially when the new localized declaration style is used (so tons of variables are not declared at a time anymore)? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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