linux-kernel - Re: function prototype element ordering

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Message-ID: <e231bce4942848400f4286a2d4178eeab6555989.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Sep 2021 01:51:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, apw@...onical.com,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
        Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>, dwaipayanray1@...il.com,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: function prototype element ordering

On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 10:24 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> Attributes should be on their own line, they can be quite lengthy.
> 
> 	__attribute__((...))
> 	[static] [inline] T f(A1 arg1, ...)
> 	{
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> There will be even more attributes in the future, both added by
> compilers and developers (const, pure, WUR), so let's make "prototype lane"
> for them.
> 
> Same for structures:
> 
> 	__attribute__((packed))
> 	struct S {
> 	};

Do you know if placing attributes like __packed/__aligned() before
definitions would work for all cases for structs/substructs/unions?