On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:39:17 -0500, Greg Donald said: > The WARNING "line over 80 characters" currently accounts for 216K of > the total violations. IMHO checkpatch should just stop complaining > about the 80 char limit since that's the main offender causing new On the other hand, there's very good human factors reasons to restrict the length of source lines. As the human eye reads text, it saccades across, and too-long lines result in poor tracking. More than 60-75 characters causes problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_in_reading http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability The fact that C code is indented doesn't help - it means the left margin isn't as easily predictable as flush-left alignment.
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