On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 10:37 AM Liu Hao <lh_mo...@126.com> wrote:

> > I reformatted the code to a consistent layout to improve readability
> > whilst I was trying to figure out how it worked. The original code had a
> > variety of styles. Is there a "preferred" style? I noticed that other
> > source have different styles.
>
> I am afraid not. Our repository has been developing for many years with
> contributions from many people; it is almost impossible to have all
> people agree on a specific coding style. When people start to agree on
> such divergence, the crucial thing is to make you ideas clear and easy
> to be understood. In addition, a single commit altering more code is
> more subject to likelihood of conflicts, should it be backported.
>

Generally speaking, winpthreads was made to use the GNU style.

>

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