On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Robert,
In message alpine.DEB.2.02.1302030404210.5835@oneiric you wrote:
multi line comments in u-boot are commonly
/*
- I span
- multiple lines
*/
So while at it, you might want to add the empty opening line as well.
in cases like this, it's kind of a judgment call. if that's truly a strict standard, then sure. but i'm pretty sure there's a *lot* of the above type of comment in the source and when i'm just fixing comments, i prefer to make as unobtrusive a change as possible.
If you are editing these, then please also fix the multi-line comment style as suggested. Thanks.
so what is the actual standard? besides the above, line space above? line space below? because i see all sorts of variations in the code, the most common of which is:
... snip ... static int mod_mem(cmd_tbl_t *, int, int, int, char * const []);
/* Display values from last command. * Memory modify remembered values are different from display memory. */ static uint dp_last_addr, dp_last_size; ... snip ...
which, as you can see, has a leading blank line but not a following one. so what's correct? is this written down somewhere?
rday