Coding Standard: Add TAB stop requirement

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Gregory Nutt 2015-12-29 13:36:26 -06:00
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<h2>1.5 <a name="indentation">Indentation</b></h2>
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<b>Indentation Unit</b>
<b>Indentation Unit</b>.
Indentation is in units of two spaces; Each indentation level is twos spaces further to the right than the preceding identation levels.
The use of TAB characters for indentation is prohibited in C source and header files (they may be appropriate in make files and some scripts, however).
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<b>Use of TAB Characters</b>.
The use of TAB characters for indentation is prohibited in C source and header files.
TAB characters are, however, used in make files, assembly language source files, Kconfig files and some script files.
When TAB characters are used in these files, spaces may not be used for indentation.
The correct TAB setting is 4 spaces (not 8) in these cases.
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<b>Alignment of Braces</b>.
Note that since braces must be on a separate line (see above), this indentation by two spaces has an interesting property: