is there a standard for putting the name of a source file in the file?

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Sun Nov 18 11:26:37 EST 2012


On 08:48 Sun 18 Nov     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   as i'm working my way thru the lib/ routines in barebox, i notice
> that some source files there, like getopt.c, conveniently have the
> filename right at the top:
> 
> /*
>  * getopt.c - a simple getopt(3) implementation. See getopt.h for explanation.
> ...
> 
> i really like this habit as it makes it easy to send a file to the
> printer and not forget what the file was.
> 
>   however, most of the files in lib/ don't have that.  as i work my
> way through the files, i'd be happy to add something like that to each
> file, and submit the changes all as one patch.  is there a standard?
> from what i can see, there's quite the variety in how people add that
> to a source file.
> 
>   i'm open to guidance and i can take it from there.
no this is a pain in the ass to maintian when we move file

I' drop it and I'm against it

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> rday
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