Re: RFC: Add a short doc with libvirt coding style guidelines

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:40:35AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 	There's a few more obvious things missing, I think - e.g. should new
> code use lower_case_with_underscores naming style or mixedCase ?

Really ? About 70% of our code currently uses mixed case, no underscores.
The QEMU/network driver file & mdns file are the main ones which don't.

> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:39 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >   2. Do not use conditionals in front of 'free'.
> > 
> >      eg Instead of
> > 
> >        if (foo) free(foo)
> > 
> >      Use
> > 
> >        free(foo)
> 
> 	That's only safe with glibc, right ?

The man page says its C89 standard and the nice folks at Wine have done
some background checks which show its safe on any modern UNIX...

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-October/031544.html 


Dan.
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