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Rob Landley writes:
 
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Read: http://www.chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/ifdefs.pdf
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Personally, I tend to have symbols #defined to a constant 0 or 1 depending on
 
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with any optimizer worth its salt.  Borland C for DOS managed simple dead
 
with any optimizer worth its salt.  Borland C for DOS managed simple dead
 
code elimination 20 years ago...)
 
code elimination 20 years ago...)
 
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==

Latest revision as of 08:55, 27 February 2012

Here are some miscellaneous tips for good code styling:

Proper Linux Kernel Coding Style

See the kernel coding style guide in any kernel source tree at: Documentation/CodingStyle (Online here)

Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote some additional tips in his article: Proper Linux Kernel Coding Style

Michael S. Tsirkin made a kernel guide to space (a boring list of rules) which got polished on a worth reading thread in LKML in 2005.

use of #ifdefs

Rob Landley writes:

Read: http://doc.cat-v.org/henry_spencer/ifdef_considered_harmful.pdf

Personally, I tend to have symbols #defined to a constant 0 or 1 depending on whether or not a function is enabled, and then just use if(SYMBOL) as a guard and let the compiler's dead code eliminator take it out for me at compile time (because if(0) {blah;} shouldn't put any code in the resulting .o file with any optimizer worth its salt. Borland C for DOS managed simple dead code elimination 20 years ago...)

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