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Re: [PATCH] Speed up genattrtab
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> I agree that the original version is more robust against future change.
Mark> In my own code, I always write "if (...) { ... }" even if there's only
Mark> one dependent statement. But, I thought that the GNU coding standards
Mark> left no room for interpretation in this case. If everyone's comfortable
Mark> with making an exception for this case, it's fine by me.
The standards.info on my FC5 box says:
When you have an `if'-`else' statement nested in another `if'
statement, always put braces around the `if'-`else'. Thus, never write
like this:
The document doesn't actually seem to say all that much about braces
otherwise. Less than I remembered anyway.
Tom