From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: is there a standard for putting the name of a source file in the file?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:41:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121119094101.GK10369@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1211181139290.32036@oneiric>
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39:48AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>
> > On 08:48 Sun 18 Nov , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > as i'm working my way thru the lib/ routines in barebox, i notice
> > > that some source files there, like getopt.c, conveniently have the
> > > filename right at the top:
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * getopt.c - a simple getopt(3) implementation. See getopt.h for explanation.
> > > ...
> > >
> > > i really like this habit as it makes it easy to send a file to the
> > > printer and not forget what the file was.
> > >
> > > however, most of the files in lib/ don't have that. as i work my
> > > way through the files, i'd be happy to add something like that to each
> > > file, and submit the changes all as one patch. is there a standard?
> > > from what i can see, there's quite the variety in how people add that
> > > to a source file.
> > >
> > > i'm open to guidance and i can take it from there.
> > no this is a pain in the ass to maintian when we move file
> >
> > I' drop it and I'm against it
>
> ok, that logic makes sense, i'm good with that.
Me aswell. Tools like a2ps also print the filename ;)
Sascha
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-18 13:48 Robert P. J. Day
2012-11-18 16:26 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-11-18 16:39 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-11-19 9:41 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-11-19 9:46 ` Robert P. J. Day
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