summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 1a7bc4591c..b20b2f94f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -227,7 +227,10 @@ For C programs:
the first statement (i.e. -Wdeclaration-after-statement).
- Declaring a variable in the for loop "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)"
- is still not allowed in this codebase.
+ is still not allowed in this codebase. We are in the process of
+ allowing it by waiting to see that 44ba10d6 (revision: use C99
+ declaration of variable in for() loop, 2021-11-14) does not get
+ complaints. Let's revisit this around November 2022.
- NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0.