CODING_STYLE: Section about mixed declarations

We had an unwritten rule about declarations having to be at beginning of
blocks. Make it a written rule.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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Eduardo Habkost 2014-03-17 15:26:31 -03:00 committed by Michael Tokarev
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@ -84,3 +84,10 @@ and clarity it comes on a line by itself:
Rationale: a consistent (except for functions...) bracing style reduces
ambiguity and avoids needless churn when lines are added or removed.
Furthermore, it is the QEMU coding style.
5. Declarations
Mixed declarations (interleaving statements and declarations within blocks)
are not allowed; declarations should be at the beginning of blocks. In other
words, the code should not generate warnings if using GCC's
-Wdeclaration-after-statement option.