This documents the following whitespace rules
if(foo) // Bad
if (foo) // Good
int foo (int wizz) // Bad
int foo(int wizz) // Good
bar = foo (wizz); // Bad
bar = foo(wizz); // Good
typedef int (*foo) (int wizz); // Bad
typedef int (*foo)(int wizz); // Good
int foo( int wizz ); // Bad
int foo(int wizz); // Good
There is a syntax-check rule extension to validate all these rules.
Checking for 'function (...args...)' is quite difficult since it
needs to ignore valid usage with keywords like 'if (...test...)'
and while/for/switch. It must also ignore source comments and
quoted strings.
It is not possible todo this with a simple regex in the normal
syntax-check style. So a short Perl script is created instead
to analyse the source. In practice this works well enough. The
only thing it can't cope with is multi-line quoted strings of
the form
"start of string\
more lines\
more line\
the end"
but this can and should be written as
"start of string"
"more lines"
"more line"
"the end"
with this simple change, the bracket checking script does not
have any false positives across libvirt source, provided it
is only run against .c files. It is not practical to run it
against .h files, since those use whitespace extensively to
get alignment (though this is somewhat inconsistent and could
arguably be fixed).
The only limitation is that it cannot detect a violation where
the first arg starts with a '*', eg
foo(*wizz);
since this generates too many false positives on function
typedefs which can't be supressed efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange