Re: [coreboot] Proposing a change to Coding Style

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Patrick,

Am Mittwoch, den 16.05.2018, 17:15 +0200 schrieb Patrick Georgi:
> after just running into an issue on the EC code base, I hereby propose that
> going forward, we should always wrap conditional blocks in braces, even
> one-liners.
> That is:
>
> if (foo) {
>    bar();
> }
>
> instead of
>
> if (foo)
>    bar();
>
> It doesn't hurt too much but saves us from accidentally adding baz() after
> bar(), forgetting to add the - now required - braces. If we get rough
> consensus over this, I'd change Coding_Style to match.
>
> Thoughts?

Just to clarify, as it is *should* both styles are allowed, or the new
style *must* be used going forward?

The reason I ask is, that being compatible with the Linux kernel is a
good goal to be able to copy code around.

Kind regards,

Paul