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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
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: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:39:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1211181139290.32036@oneiric> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121118162637.GF8327@game.jcrosoft.org>

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.

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-18 16:39 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2012-11-19  9:41     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-11-19  9:46       ` Robert P. J. Day

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