On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 02:27:27PM +0000, Laurence Rochfort wrote:
Thanks very much for the comprehensive answer.
Using spaces and tabs for alignment does make the code more readable to my mind.
The reason behind my question originally was that the CodingStyle doc states:
"Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken."
however most code I have seen is not compliant with that.
Should the docs be updated?
There's difference between terms "indentation" and "alignment". Please see paragraph "Indentation and alignment" of previously referenced article: http://dmitryfrank.com/articles/indent_with_tabs_align_with_spaces#indentati... Accounting this difference, the doc is correct in strict sense.