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Message-ID: <18414.31274.514325.238985@harpo.it.uu.se>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:19:38 +0100
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To: Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Comma at end of enum lists
Jacek Luczak writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I've found that in many enum lists, there's a comma at the end, e.g.
> (arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c):
>
> enum {
> MAGIC1 = 0xBACCD00A,
> MAGIC2 = 0xCA110000,
> XOPEN = 5,
> XWRITE = 4,
> };
>
> Just out of curiosity, is there any particular reason here (no word in
> CodingStyle about that).
Yes. This idiom allows you to add or remove items without
changing adjacent lines.
In a language with strict a comma-as-separator rule you can
get this benefit by placing the comma before new items rather
than after existing items:
enum { FOO
,FIE
,FUM
};
but luckily C doesn't need this perversion.
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