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Index: head/share/man/man9/style.9
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--- head/share/man/man9/style.9
+++ head/share/man/man9/style.9
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\" From: @(#)style 1.14 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 28, 2019
+.Dd June 3, 2019
.Dt STYLE 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -779,8 +779,19 @@
static void
usage(void)
{
- /* Insert an empty line if the function has no local variables. */
+ /* Optional blank line goes here. */
.Ed
+.Pp
+Optionally, insert a blank line at the beginning of functions with no local
+variables.
+Older versions of this
+.Nm
+document required the blank line convention, so it is widely used in existing
+code.
+.Pp
+Do not insert a blank line at the beginning of functions with local variables.
+Instead, these should have local variable declarations first, followed by one
+blank line, followed by the first statement.
.Pp
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