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4.9 KiB
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167 lines
4.9 KiB
Groff
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.TH cstyle 1 "28 March 2005"
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.SH NAME
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.I cstyle
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\- check for some common stylistic errors in C source files
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBcstyle [-chpvCP] [-o constructs] [file...]\fP
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.LP
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.IX "OS-Net build tools" "cstyle" "" "\fBcstyle\fP"
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.LP
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.I cstyle
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inspects C source files (*.c and *.h) for common stylistic errors. It
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attempts to check for the cstyle documented in
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\fIhttp://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lee/06cse480/data/cstyle.ms.pdf\fP.
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Note that there is much in that document that
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.I cannot
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be checked for; just because your code is \fBcstyle(1)\fP clean does not
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mean that you've followed Sun's C style. \fICaveat emptor\fP.
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.LP
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.SH OPTIONS
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.LP
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The following options are supported:
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.TP 4
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.B \-c
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Check continuation line indentation inside of functions. Sun's C style
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states that all statements must be indented to an appropriate tab stop,
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and any continuation lines after them must be indented \fIexactly\fP four
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spaces from the start line. This option enables a series of checks
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designed to find continuation line problems within functions only. The
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checks have some limitations; see CONTINUATION CHECKING, below.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B \-h
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Performs heuristic checks that are sometimes wrong. Not generally used.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B \-p
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Performs some of the more picky checks. Includes ANSI #else and #endif
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rules, and tries to detect spaces after casts. Used as part of the
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putback checks.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B \-v
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Verbose output; includes the text of the line of error, and, for
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\fB-c\fP, the first statement in the current continuation block.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B \-C
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Ignore errors in header comments (i.e. block comments starting in the
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first column). Not generally used.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B \-P
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Check for use of non-POSIX types. Historically, types like "u_int" and
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"u_long" were used, but they are now deprecated in favor of the POSIX
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types uint_t, ulong_t, etc. This detects any use of the deprecated
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types. Used as part of the putback checks.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B \-o \fIconstructs\fP
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Allow a comma-separated list of additional constructs. Available
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constructs include:
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.LP
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.TP 10
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.B doxygen
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Allow doxygen-style block comments (\fB/**\fP and \fB/*!\fP)
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.LP
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.TP 10
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.B splint
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Allow splint-style lint comments (\fB/*@...@*/\fP)
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.LP
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.SH NOTES
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.LP
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The cstyle rule for the OS/Net consolidation is that all new files must
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be \fB-pP\fP clean. For existing files, the following invocations are
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run against both the old and new files:
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.LP
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.TP 4
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\fBcstyle file\fB
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.LP
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.TP 4
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\fBcstyle -p file\fB
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.LP
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.TP 4
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\fBcstyle -pP file\fB
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.LP
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If the old file gave no errors for one of the invocations, the new file
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must also give no errors. This way, files can only become more clean.
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.LP
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.SH CONTINUATION CHECKING
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.LP
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The continuation checker is a reasonably simple state machine that knows
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something about how C is laid out, and can match parenthesis, etc. over
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multiple lines. It does have some limitations:
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B 1.
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Preprocessor macros which cause unmatched parenthesis will confuse the
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checker for that line. To fix this, you'll need to make sure that each
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branch of the #if statement has balanced parenthesis.
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B 2.
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Some \fBcpp\fP macros do not require ;s after them. Any such macros
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*must* be ALL_CAPS; any lower case letters will cause bad output.
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.LP
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The bad output will generally be corrected after the next \fB;\fP,
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\fB{\fP, or \fB}\fP.
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.LP
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Some continuation error messages deserve some additional explanation
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B
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multiple statements continued over multiple lines
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A multi-line statement which is not broken at statement
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boundaries. For example:
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.RS 4
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.HP 4
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if (this_is_a_long_variable == another_variable) a =
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.br
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b + c;
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.LP
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Will trigger this error. Instead, do:
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.HP 8
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if (this_is_a_long_variable == another_variable)
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.br
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a = b + c;
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.RE
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.LP
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.TP 4
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.B
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empty if/for/while body not on its own line
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For visibility, empty bodies for if, for, and while statements should be
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on their own line. For example:
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.RS 4
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.HP 4
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while (do_something(&x) == 0);
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.LP
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Will trigger this error. Instead, do:
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.HP 8
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while (do_something(&x) == 0)
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.br
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;
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.RE
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