Having function return types on an extra line is actually quite useful, because you can easily grep for the function implementation with `grep ^foo -r .`
This works quite well, even on huge code bases.
FreeBSD maintains this style, so you can just 'git grep ^function' to find a function's definition.
When working with other codebases which don't follow this convention, its somewhat frustrating to find a function's definition with just grep.
static inline const unsigned int *
function()Or:
You can use ctags (like the Linux kernel)
or just grep for something like (egrep) '^[a-z]+ .+foo\(' if you're really bothered by grepping function calls instead of only definitions