Hello Joel and Sebastian, On 05/11/2020 16:44, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 9:26 AM Sebastian Huber > <sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de > <mailto:sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I review currently the Coding Conventions. Should the 80 characters > limit be really a 79 characters limit with the \n as the invisible 80th > character? > > > Yes. > > As old as this makes me feel, I remember printers which did an automatic > linefeed and then the newline one if you hit column 80. So it really is > 79 unfortunately.
I don't think printers with an automatic linefeed are a common use case for reading the RTEMS source code nowadays. So that maybe isn't the best reason for using 79 characters. I would suggest to use the same convention that most coding styles use which seems to be 80 characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_per_line#In_programming At least if there are no more recent examples for tools or editors where 79 is a benefit. 80 seems just feels a bit more natural. By the way: If we count '\n': Should we count a tab '\t' as a single character, as 2, as 4 or as 8 ones? What about the few Unicode characters that slipped in over the years? Best regards Christian > > > -- > embedded brains GmbH > Sebastian HUBER > Dornierstr. 4 > 82178 Puchheim > Germany > email: sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de > <mailto:sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> > Phone: +49-89-18 94 741 - 16 > Fax: +49-89-18 94 741 - 08 > PGP: Public key available on request. > > embedded brains GmbH > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München > Registernummer: HRB 157899 > Vertretungsberechtigte Geschäftsführer: Peter Rasmussen, Thomas Dörfler > Unsere Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier: > https://embedded-brains.de/datenschutzerklaerung/ > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org <mailto:devel@rtems.org> > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
