mpage/misc — comment on commit 08eb0373fbf3de30a33273f2d8cae30470da907e
File: report_quota.c line 140
By jstultz:

I generally prefer the style "char *device_name", even though it seems less clear on the face of it. Specifically, because the '*' is actually bound to the identifier, not the type.

'char *device_name, a_character' makes it slightly more clear that a_character is not a pointer than 'char* device_name, a_character'

In addition, if you *are* going to declare two pointers in one line, the style for doing that is unclear if you do 'char*':
char* device_name, *other_device_name ??

That said, another option is just to strictly limit declarations to one variable per line. (I also acknowledge that this is still to some extent a matter of personal preference)