Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Matthew Brush matt@geany.org Committer: Matthew Brush matt@geany.org Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:59:21 UTC Commit: 131b608d5b430df6bb960ecdd63611cb5cda4be8 https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/131b608d5b430df6bb960ecdd63611cb5cda4b...

Log Message: ----------- Update HACKING a bit for C99 standard

Modified Paths: -------------- HACKING

Modified: HACKING 16 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -165,13 +165,10 @@ to set warning options (as well as anything else e.g. -g -O2). * Enable warnings - for gcc use '-Wall -W' (and optionally -Wno-unused-parameter to avoid unused parameter warnings in Glade callbacks). -* You should try to write ISO C90 code for portability, so always +* You should try to write ISO C99 code for portability, so always use C ``/* */`` comments and function_name(void) instead of function_name(). This is for compatibility with various Unix-like - compilers. You should use -ansi to help check this. - Note that MIO (tagmanager/mio) requires ``MIO_FORCE_ANSI`` - preprocessor constant to be defined to build with ``-ansi``, so you - should add ``-DMIO_FORCE_ANSI`` together with ``-ansi``. + compilers. You should use -std=c99 to help check this.

.. tip:: Remember for gcc you need to enable optimization to get certain @@ -187,9 +184,9 @@ Style When editing with Geany set preference files->Strip trailing spaces and tabs. * Use the multiline comment ``/* */`` to comment small blocks of code, - functions descriptions or longer explanations of code, etc. C++ single - line comments will cause portability issues. The more comments are in - your code the better. (See also ``scripts/fix-cxx-comments.pl`` in Git). + functions descriptions or longer explanations of code, etc. The more + comments are in your code the better. (See also + ``scripts/fix-cxx-comments.pl`` in Git). * Lines should not be longer than about 100 characters and after 100 characters the lines should be wrapped and indented once more to show that the line is continued. @@ -200,7 +197,8 @@ Style * 2-operand operators should have a space each side. * Function bodies should have 2 blank newlines after them. * Align braces together on separate lines. -* Don't put assignments in 'if/while/etc' expressions. +* Don't put assignments in 'if/while/etc' expressions except for loops, + for example ``for (int i = 0; i < some_limit; i++)``. * if statements without brace bodies should have the code on a separate line, then a blank line afterwards. * Use braces after if/while statements if the body uses another

-------------- This E-Mail was brought to you by github_commit_mail.py (Source: https://github.com/geany/infrastructure).