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authorAngel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>2019-09-02 15:43:13 +0200
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2019-09-04 10:54:41 +0000
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Documentation/coding_style.md: Update line length limit
Line length limit was bumped to 96 characters, but the coding style did not reflect such a change. Change-Id: Ifdbb8bc04e49e1fbe9b0c8a642ae814d5a60004a Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/35215 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Coding style is all about readability and maintainability using commonly
available tools.
-The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly
+The limit on the length of lines is 96 columns and this is a strongly
preferred limit.
-Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks,
-unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does
+Statements longer than 96 columns will be broken into sensible chunks,
+unless exceeding 96 columns significantly increases readability and does
not hide information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than
the parent and are placed substantially to the right. The same applies
to function headers with a long argument list. However, never break