[PATCH] include: purge foo(int /*bar*/) function declarations.

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:29:59 +1000
> From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> 
> because, really, comments should be for comments.

Not sure this is a good idea, at least not in public headers.

The problem is that if you have

extern void foo(int bar);

and for some reason bar is #defined to something nontrivial, you'll
get compilation failures.  Another nice one is:

extern void foo(int class);

which won't compile if you include the header file from C++.  And
before you say that this isn't likely to happen, you have one in your
diff:

 typedef    void (* QueryBestSizeProcPtr)(
-	int /*class*/,
-	unsigned short * /*pwidth*/,
-	unsigned short * /*pheight*/,
-	ScreenPtr /*pScreen*/);
+	int class,
+	unsigned short * pwidth,
+	unsigned short * pheight,
+	ScreenPtr pScreen);
 
Now glibc solves the problem by prepending two underscores to the
argument names in its header files.  That works because POSIX
explicitly says that the symbols prefixed with __ are "reserved for
the system", and users are not supposed to define their own symbols.
But while glibc can make a solid case for being part of "the system",
I'm not quite so sure about Xorg.

If you really, really want to get rid of these comments, simply omit
them.  But I do think they are actually useful since they allow people
to make some educated guess about what parameters to pass to the
interface (and in what order) by just looking at the header file.

Also, please, please don't put a space on either side of '*' for
pointer declarations (i.e. "void * p").  I know it is a matter of
style, and therefore personal taste, but my brain is wired to
recognise that as a multiplication operator.  Everybody knows you
should use "void *p" in proper C code.