Coding Convention: Sorting Order of Includes?

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Wed Jan 8 14:03:49 UTC 2020


On 03/01/2020 17:52, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Vijay noted in another thread that:
> "For RTEMS, I don't see any preference mentioned in the docs for the
> order or includes:
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/eng/coding-conventions.html
> 
> In libbsd, however, the FreeBSD style guide is followed which has a
> preference for the order of header includes:
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0&sektion=9"
> 
> Should we consider any rules? I would suspect that at least ordering
> by API layering could be helpful. Lexical sorting is nice but probably
> there will be some exceptions based on dependencies.

I would use the Google rule:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Names_and_Order_of_Includes

It is compatible to the FreeBSD style (except the include related header 
first).

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