[lldb-dev] LLDB Coding Style

[Chandler Carruth]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
>
> > I brought this up in a thread on lldb-commits, but since it is of more
> general interest, I want to make a thread here as well.
> >
> > Can we have clear direction on LLDB coding style?
>
> Just to toss out a controversial opinion here, I consider it a bug that
> LLDB doesn’t follow the documented LLVM coding standard.  This only drives
> a wedge between LLDB and the rest of the LLVM community.


I want to strongly, emphatically agree.

Coding standards are most valuable when consistent across a broad, shared
body of code. We need more contributors in LLDB, and one place to get them
is from the existing large pool of LLVM developers. We should be lowering
the barriers there, especially for easy things like coding standards.

Also, as we are actively developing convention, standard, and formatting
tools, the cost of changing this is going down and the value to the
*existing* developers of using the common coding standard is going up.
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