kc3-lang/libjpeg-turbo

2016-02-19T08:53:33

Use consistent/modern code formatting for pointers The convention used by libjpeg: type * variable; is not very common anymore, because it looks too much like multiplication. Some (particularly C++ programmers) prefer to tuck the pointer symbol against the type: type* variable; to emphasize that a pointer to a type is effectively a new type. However, this can also be confusing, since defining multiple variables on the same line would not work properly: type* variable1, variable2; /* Only variable1 is actually a pointer. */ This commit reformats the entirety of the libjpeg-turbo code base so that it uses the same code formatting convention for pointers that the TurboJPEG API code uses: type *variable1, *variable2; This seems to be the most common convention among C programmers, and it is the convention used by other codec libraries, such as libpng and libtiff.