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| author | Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org> | 2002-05-17 13:13:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org> | 2002-05-17 13:13:15 +0000 |
| commit | f627be5ec2703cf3dbfc64a51b36904376aab361 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c01ed4ade3ad7bd17e96d1a4944e4fb461b4b5a /source3/CodingSuggestions | |
| parent | eed5094264945ca8ccf47030375cc56808ae8ea3 (diff) | |
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Add an item about the __va_copy macro to prevent SEGV's on 390 and PPC Linux.
(This used to be commit 443ba282be79e2b7259950fffbd7fe9bb4cabf8c)
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diff --git a/source3/CodingSuggestions b/source3/CodingSuggestions index 48c51281f5..1ff3e01c1c 100644 --- a/source3/CodingSuggestions +++ b/source3/CodingSuggestions @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ Here are some other suggestions: 6) explicitly add const qualifiers on parm passing in functions where parm is input only (somewhat controversial but const can be #defined away) +7) when passing a va_list as an arg, or assigning one to another, check + for HAVE_VA_COPY, and use it if it exists. + reason: on some platforms, va_list is a struct that must be + initialized in each function...can SEGV if you don't. + 8) discourage use of threads reason: portability (also see architecture.doc) |