[Interest] 80 column enforcement under Linux

[roland at logikalsolutions.com]

All,

Yes, QtCreator will let us set a right margin of 80 columns and can be  
configured to wrap, but, that only helps with new code, not thousands  
of lines of old code. I was hoping Artistic Style would have an option  
to flag physical lines > 80 characters long, but don't see that.

Is there some Linux tool which can be integrated with QtCreator which  
will enforce a maximum physical source line length by flagging it as  
an error or providing some kind of "find instances" search ability? I  
assume there has to be one since BARR-C:2018 (and its predecessors)  
are so widely used.

https://barrgroup.com/Embedded-Systems/Books/Embedded-C-Coding-Standard

Hoping to avoid a "just wrap" solution. Would like to really adhere to  
the spirit of the standard, even if we end up overriding to 130  
characters as quite a few shops do.

Thanks,
-- 
Roland Hughes, President
Logikal Solutions
(630) 205-1593

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