From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23596 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2011 18:48:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 23586 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Feb 2011 18:48:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (HELO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com) (65.115.85.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:48:43 +0000 Received: from mailhost2.vmware.com (mailhost2.vmware.com [10.16.67.167]) by smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2E0130F1; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com (promd-2s-dhcp138.eng.vmware.com [10.20.124.138]) by mailhost2.vmware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49D88EEB2; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 10:48:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D485589.7060600@vmware.com> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:48:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Alves CC: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: [doc/gdbint] Mention some formatting guidelines for casts and unary operators References: <201102011628.32860.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <201102011628.32860.pedro@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves wrote: > This is a follow up to a discussion from last November > , > that sort of came up today again. > > It imports and casts to stone these recommendations (from GCC): > > Use... ...instead of > !x ! x > ~x ~ x > -x (unary minus) - x > (foo) x (cast) (foo)x > *x (pointer dereference) * x > > > which we have been largely following already anyway. > > Okay? Good by me. Suggest also: (type *) (cast) instead of (type*) (type *name) (prototype) instead of (type* name)