From 2e30a025754c97b2fff9a0e9ab3923f2f01cfc11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:06:34 +0000 Subject: r25156: Update coding guiding wrt to primitive data types (This used to be commit 01d42744903d7ef9044fa4d2ad1cc64594717573) --- README.Coding | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.Coding') diff --git a/README.Coding b/README.Coding index 73ceb5028c..da6bb38207 100644 --- a/README.Coding +++ b/README.Coding @@ -214,3 +214,18 @@ or if (!x) { fprintf(stderr, "Unable to alloc memory!\n"); } + + +Primitive Data Types +-------------------- + +Samba has large amounts of historical code which makes use of data types +commonly supported by the C99 standard. However, at the time such types +as boolean and exact width integers did not exist and Samba developers +were forced to provide their own. Now that these types are guaranteed to +be available either as part of the compiler C99 support or from lib/replace/, +new code should adhere to the following conventions: + + * Booleans are of type "bool" (not BOOL) + * Boolean values are "true" and "false" (not True or False) + * Exact width integers are of type [u]int[8|16|32|64]_t -- cgit