Since there's no current maintainer for nxstyle... What would people think about trying Clang-Format <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html>? It's a well-used tool (LLVM, Google, Chromium, Mozilla, Webkit, and Microsoft <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html>), and can be configured for many different style guides... it should be possible to configure it for NuttX's style guide. Or at least get close. If there's interest, I can take a shot at trying to configure it using the NuttX style guide. If we went that direction, we'd have another tool to install. But then we'd only have to maintain a configuration, and we'd be joining a big community who are all using this same tool. What do you think?
We have already tried indent, astyle, and uncrustify and were not happy with them. There are starts already in tools/. Of those, indent probably works the same.
A tool that produces absolutely perfect output would be useful. But even the tiniest of bugs make the tool useless.
My guess is that you will fail. Everyone else has. So cannot in good faith encourage you.
But if you create the perfect tool that does everything 100% correctly, I suppose you would be a hero. The acceptance test is this:
You run the program against all .c and .h files under sched and the output is 100% compatible with the input you win. One byte different you lose. Hundreds hours have gone into this challenge and all have failed.
Greg
