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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

> 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

  ok, that logic makes sense, i'm good with that.

rday

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