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diff --git a/tools/check-c-style.sh b/tools/check-c-style.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+fail=0
+
+( . "${tools_dir}"/check-misc.sh ) || fail=$?
+
+if grep -n '^ *GError *\*[[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:]_]* *;' "$@"
+then
+  echo "^^^ The above files contain uninitialized GError*s - they should be"
+  echo "    initialized to NULL"
+  fail=1
+fi
+
+# The first regex finds function calls like foo() (as opposed to foo ()).
+#   It attempts to ignore string constants (may cause false negatives).
+# The second and third ignore block comments (gtkdoc uses foo() as markup).
+# The fourth ignores cpp so you can
+#   #define foo(bar) (_real_foo (__FUNC__, bar)) (cpp insists on foo() style).
+if grep -n '^[^"]*[[:lower:]](' "$@" \
+  | grep -v '^[-[:alnum:]_./]*:[[:digit:]]*: *\*' \
+  | grep -v '^[-[:alnum:]_./]*:[[:digit:]]*: */\*' \
+  | grep -v '^[-[:alnum:]_./]*:[[:digit:]]*: *#'
+then
+  echo "^^^ Our coding style is to use function calls like foo (), not foo()"
+  fail=1
+fi
+
+if test -n "$CHECK_FOR_LONG_LINES"
+then
+  if egrep -n '.{80,}' "$@"
+  then
+    echo "^^^ The above files contain long lines"
+    fail=1
+  fi
+fi
+
+exit $fail