IMHO if the 80-column limit bothers you in C, you're writing bad C. Quoting the kernel docs, it is "warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Hee

IMHO if the 80-column limit bothers you in C, you're writing bad C. Quoting the kernel docs, it is "warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning". I remember reading this for the first time as a teenager: "if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program". Twenty years later, it seems like solid advice to me. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst#n18 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...