coding-style: Document 100 chars limit for line length

The idea is to have it like a soft limit: if possible then break
lines, if not then have a long line instead of some creative
approach.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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Michal Privoznik 2020-11-30 13:55:12 +01:00
parent 3cb833fef0
commit 5f6a761899

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@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ around operators and keywords:
indent-libvirt()
{
indent -bad -bap -bbb -bli4 -br -ce -brs -cs -i4 -l75 -lc75 \
indent -bad -bap -bbb -bli4 -br -ce -brs -cs -i4 -l100 -lc100 \
-sbi4 -psl -saf -sai -saw -sbi4 -ss -sc -cdw -cli4 -npcs -nbc \
--no-tabs "$@"
}
@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ further, by piping it through ``expand -i``, since some leading
TABs can get through. Usually they're in macro definitions or
strings, and should be converted anyhow.
The maximum permitted line length is 100 characters, but lines
should aim to be approximately 80 characters.
Libvirt requires a C99 compiler for various reasons. However, most
of the code base prefers to stick to C89 syntax unless there is a
compelling reason otherwise. For example, it is preferable to use