From 6091827530d6dd43479d6709fb6e9f745c11e900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:42:52 +0100 Subject: initial commit --- CODING_STYLE | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CODING_STYLE (limited to 'CODING_STYLE') 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". -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf