Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Coding convention query

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma wrote:
> Does in coding convention, it Limit lines to 79 characters?
>
> I have gone through README.developer but didn't find any such restriction. 
>
> Even when i see some codes, packet-tcp.c etc, some or most lines does 
> not limit to 79 characters. 
>
> Could anyone confirm me on this. Thanks in advance.

There is not, AFAIK, a rule (hard or soft) on this.  I generally just 
try to use the style of the file I'm currently viewing.  If I'm writing 
a new module, personally, I tend to limit the lines to 79/80 columns.

(A colleague once convinced me of the benefit of 8-space tabs plus an 
80-column limit: if you find yourself running out of room on the right 
then it means your code is too complicated/nested and you need to rework 
it, possibly breaking it into sub-functions.  Wireshark, with its 
very_long_function_names() does tend to make such an approach difficult 
though...)