On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:41:07PM -0700, Jeff Law wrote: > On 11/26/18 10:59 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: > > As an aside, regarding the space convention in casts: a crude > > grep search yields about 10,000 instances of the "(type)x" kinds > > of casts in GCC sources and 40,000 of the preferred "(type) x" > > style with the space. That's a consistency of only 80%. Is > > it worth documenting a preference for a convention that's so > > inconsistently followed? > Please do. It's a fairly recent change -- I suspect some old code was > never fixed and some folks (perhaps myself) have that extraneous > whitespace in their muscle memory and still need to eliminate it.
Huh? Spaces after casts are required, and make things much more readable. This isn't recent. A lot of old code writes spaces after single-character unary operators, too, which is ugly and less readable. It's not recent that this is explicitly documented as wrong, either. Segher
