[sdcc-devel] SDCC coding style

[Bernhard H. <ber...@be...>]

Hi,

several people have joined the developer group during the last months, with an 
increasing number of windoze based developers. Of course this is a positive 
evolution, but some of you brought their own coding style to SDCC. This is 
not a crime, but you've certainly already made the experience, that it is 
difficult to read an unusual formatted code. A common formatting standard 
makes co-operation easier.

Therefore please allow me to remember you that SDCC's coding style should 
comply with the "GNU coding standards". C code should be formatted like this:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_23.html#SEC23

For identation 2 spaces are used. A tab has to be 8 spaces wide; choosing a 
different tab width is IMHO one of the more inconsiderate violations.


ChangeLog:
The major editors on Linux provide syntax-coloring even for the Change Log. A 
greater violation of the formatting standard looks really ugly. If you want 
to know how the ChangeLog should be formatted see here:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_42.html#SEC42

Thanks for considering the standards,
Bernhard