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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-05-18 18:47:22 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-05-18 18:47:52 +0200
commit8cb1cc8dc339be9f96cd290882d775cccfc4d7e7 (patch)
tree522da6680286ce08566769749a5d0fef7ff8263f /CODING_STYLE
parentee818b89f4890b3a00e93772249fce810f60811e (diff)
CODING_STYLE: document that we should avoid kernel types like u32
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- Do not use types like "short". They *never* make sense. Use ints,
longs, long longs, all in unsigned+signed fashion, and the fixed
- size types uint32_t and so on, as well as size_t, but nothing else.
+ size types uint32_t and so on, as well as size_t, but nothing
+ else. Do not use kernel types like u32 and so on, leave that to the
+ kernel.
- Public API calls (i.e. functions exported by our shared libraries)
must be marked "_public_" and need to be prefixed with "sd_". No