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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1b8c8cf3c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + +- 8ch indent, no tabs + +- structs in MixedCase, variables, functions in lower_case + +- the destructors always unregister the object from the next bigger + object, not the other way around + +- to minimize strict aliasing violations we prefer unions over casting + +- for robustness reasons destructors should be able to destruct + half-initialized objects, too + +- error codes are returned as negative Exxx. i.e. return EINVAL. There + are some exceptions: for constructors its is OK to return NULL on + OOM. For lookup functions NULL is fine too for "not found". |