Use consistent formatting in ARM NEON SIMD code
There aren't really any best practices to follow here. I tried as best
as I could to adopt a standard that would ease any future maintenance
burdens. The basic tenets of that standard are:
* Assembly instructions always start on Column 5, and operands always
start on Column 21, except:
- The instruction and operand can be indented (usually by 2 spaces)
to indicate a separate instruction stream.
- If the instruction is within an enclosing .if block in a macro,
it should always be indented relative to the .if block.
* Comments are placed with an eye toward readability. There are always
at least 2 spaces between the end of a line of code and the associated
in-line comment. Where it made sense, I tried to line up the comments
in blocks, and some were shifted right to avoid overlap with
neighboring instruction lines. Not an exact science.
* Assembler directives and macros use 2-space indenting rules. .if
blocks are indented relative to the macro, and code within the .if
blocks is indented relative to the .if directive.
* No extraneous spaces between operands. Lining up the operands
vertically did not really improve readability-- personally, I think it
made it worse, since my eye would tend to lose its place in the
uniform columns of characters. Also, code with a lot of vertical
alignment is really hard to maintain, since changing one line could
necessitate changing a bunch of other lines to avoid spoiling the
alignment.
* No extraneous spaces in #defines or other directives. In general, the
only extraneous spaces (other than indenting spaces) are between:
- Instructions and operands
- Operands and in-line comments
This standard should be more or less in keeping with other formatting
standards used within the project.
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