Re: [PATCH/coding style] clarify pointers and operators

[Richard Sandiford <richard dot sandiford at arm dot com>]

Thanks for doing this,

Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com> writes:
> Martin suggested we update the Coding Conventions to describe
> the expected style for function declarations with a pointer
> return types, and for overloaded operators.  Below is the patch.
>
> As an aside, regarding the space convention in casts: a crude
> grep search yields about 10,000 instances of the "(type)x" kinds
> of casts in GCC sources and 40,000 of the preferred "(type) x"
> style with the space.  That's a consistency of only 80%.  Is
> it worth documenting a preference for a convention that's so
> inconsistently followed?

Just to be sure, does that grep include things like the go frontend
and its GCC interface, which deliberately don't follow GNU conventions?
A crude grep for me gives 92% consistency in gcc/* itself (excluding
subdirectories), although that's still disappointingly low...

Thanks,
Richard