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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:24:29 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/27] x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce XSAVES system states
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On Thu 2018-10-18 00:58:29, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:39:47PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Would you mind explaining this request? (requirement?)
> > Other than to say that it is the preference of some maintainers,
> > please say Why it is preferred.
> >=20
> > and since the <type>s above won't typically be the same length,
> > it's not for variable name alignment, right?
>=20
> Searching the net a little, it shows you have asked that question
> before. So what is it you really wanna know?

Why do you think sorting local variables is good idea (for includes it
reduces collision, hopefully you don't have that for local variables),
and where is it documented in CodingStyle.

									Pavel
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