Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 à 21:17 +0100, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :

> Adding new files filled with ifdefs in order to avoid ifdefs in old
> files in favor of lines-looking-like-code-which-arent seems
> debatable to me. The same goes for adding unused structure members,
> uneeded function calls, indirections through fifteen different other
> files that turn out to do nothing etc. I spend much more time trying
> to read Linux code than to write Linux code and while I decidedly know
> worse things, Linux isn't exactly a prime example of easily accessible
> code precisely because so much of it is something completely different
> than what it appears to be.

Its true of any large piece of software. A new comer have to read
thousand of lines before even adding a single line.

Note that namespace code was added recently and we tried to use ifdefs
only in include files. You can find only few exceptions to this rule.



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