On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:10:20AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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.
Sorry for my confusion, but I was not aware of that rule, and I don't know what I should use as a guide, if checkpatch.pl and CODING_STYLE are not enough. Is there additional coding style documentation or scripts I should look at? -- Eduardo
