[LLVMdev] DEBUG

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Mon Jul 7 22:09:07 PDT 2008


On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Dominic Hamon wrote:
> I completely agree with this point, but then aren't you trading off
> one aspect of clarity for another? It is a problem with the C
> preprocessor that hits many projects and the equivalent to the
> namespace solution for macros is to add a prefix specific to the
> project. Ie, use LLVM_DEBUG rather than DEBUG.

It hasn't been an issue so far.

> At the risk of starting a major thread that has surely been covered
> many times before: Is there a reason to still cling to the 80 column
> limit and not consider expanding it to a controversial 100 columns?

This isn't open for debate and is covered in the coding standards:
http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#scf_codewidth

-Chris



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