[PATCH] CodingGuidelines: add a note to help contributors catch some errors earlier.

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Oct 23, 2010, 14:17 UTC
Message-ID: <1287843434-10890-1-git-send-email-ydirson@altern.org>

It is a bit of a shame to wait for other's review before noticing decl-after-stmt situations, whereas a quick check could have found it. There are probably a number of other autoamted checks which could be described here, but that's a start.

Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
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 Documentation/CodingGuidelines |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 09ffc46..7ecd4f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -139,3 +139,8 @@ For C programs:
 
  - When we pass <string, length> pair to functions, we should try to
    pass them in that order.
+
+ - C code is expected to compile when the build is launched with the
+   following command:
+
+   make CFLAGS="-Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Werror"

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