On 8 February 2014 23:33, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > Il 08/02/2014 18:28, Andreas Färber ha scritto: >> Since when is it OK to declare variables in the middle of the block?
> When the code looks better, it is OK since always: checkpatch.pl doesn't > complain and -Wdeclaration-after-statement is not added to the compiler > flags. Huh? checkpatch is notoriously not a reliable guide, and we've had the "declarations at start of block" rule since forever. thanks -- PMM