Documentation: Our coding style now allows 80 + 2*8 columns in a line

Update the document to match clang-format and checkpatch formally, and
provide a rationale.

Change-Id: I597a27d4e22d07e033b36f0dceb554ac1d8d5789
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31771
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com>
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Patrick Georgi 2019-03-05 22:19:38 +01:00
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@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a
more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should
fix your program.
Since most code in a file is indented at least 1 level, we account for
2 levels in addition to the 80 characters on the terminal under the
assumption that editors can scroll to the right, making an 80 characters
screen visible with little loss on the left end.
In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added
benefit of warning you when you're nesting your functions too deep.
Heed that warning.
@ -80,11 +85,11 @@ Get a decent editor and don't leave whitespace at the end of lines.
Coding style is all about readability and maintainability using commonly
available tools.
The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly
preferred limit.
The limit on the length of lines is 96 columns (80 columns + 2 tab levels)
and this is a strongly preferred limit.
Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks,
unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does
Statements longer than 96 columns will be broken into sensible chunks,
unless exceeding 96 columns significantly increases readability and does
not hide information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than
the parent and are placed substantially to the right. The same applies
to function headers with a long argument list. However, never break