Coding style about pointer

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It really doesn't matter The parser regognizes non-alphanumeric characters as token boundaries, so you may put as much spaces or other characters there. These all are valid as well:

char
*
str1,
str2
;

char
*
str1,
str2
;

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char *str1
,str2;

char *str1
,str2;

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x=5;

x=5;

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x = 5;

x = 5;

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x
=5;

x
=5;

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It is all just about source code readability.