coding standard

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Wed Feb 12 11:52:17 AEDT 1997


Something else for the C coding standard:

	All code other than function definitions that is nested inside `#if's
	or `#ifdef's should be indented two spaces per level of nesting.
	Use #elif to reduce nesting depth, and use
		#if defined(FOO) && defined(BLAH)
		  ...
		#endif
	rather than
		#ifdef FOO
		   #ifdef BAR
		     ..
		   #endif
		#endif

This makes the code much easier to read and hence gives us a better
chance of avoiding conditional compilation bugs.

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