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| author |  Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org> | 2012-12-16 19:36:00 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-16 18:30:53 -0800 |
| commit | a26fd033af23389cd6e17d078007aaec61b5c9c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4545f3d761b3ed22adebe2f0193f4c7fa4a77ab3 /Documentation/CodingGuidelines | |
| parent | SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages (diff) | |
| download | tgif-a26fd033af23389cd6e17d078007aaec61b5c9c1.tar.xz | |
Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines
The "Try to be nice to older C compilers" text is clearly a guideline
to be borne in mind whilst coding rather than when submitting patches.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 57da6aadeb..69f7e9b76c 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ For C programs: - We try to keep to at most 80 characters per line. + - We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile git with, + including old ones. That means that you should not use C99 + initializers, even if a lot of compilers grok it. + + - Variables have to be declared at the beginning of the block. + + - NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0. + - When declaring pointers, the star sides with the variable name, i.e. "char *string", not "char* string" or "char * string". This makes it easier to understand code |