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Except this was new code.
by azinman2 1y ago
Except this was new code.
- yencabulator 1y agoGenerally, large C projects have their own style that is followed whether the code is new or not.
- azinman2 1y agoAnd thus it’s surprising to me they haven’t changed their style moving forward when it’s known that this is error prone.
- yencabulator 1y agoLarge stable projects are very much wary of wide-scale changes their codebase. What they have is tested working by decades in production. Especially with C where tooling is brittle. Let me put this way: If you submit a code prettifying patch to the Linux kernel, it will not be accepted. The risks aren't worth it. The only real way forward is full migration away from C, for which a better scope is a separate project.