Re: [RFC-v2] BFD MinGW/Cygwin build error in bfd/peiXXgen.c

Mark Kettenis
2013-12-19T13:02:43Z

> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:38:28 +0000
> From: nick clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
>
> > Another silly coding style question: Should there by a space
> > between the address operator "&" and the variable or expression following?
>
> *sigh* There is no strict rule on this subject. Most people omit the
> space, I include it. I feel that since we separate other operators from
> their arguments we should do the same with &. I feel the same way about
> the asterisk operator too, but not many people agree with me on that one
> either.

Spaces around binary operators, no spaces around unary operators.
That's pretty much the universally accepted standard, and the one used
by the official C standard.

Everybody who thinks differently has been poisoned by C++ ;).