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authorGravatar Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net> 2006-05-24 09:23:50 +0000
committerGravatar Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net> 2006-05-24 09:23:50 +0000
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Reminder of no inline variable declarations
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<section id="CodingGuidelines"><title>Coding guidelines</title>
<para>See <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html">GNU
Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.</para>
- <section><title>Comments</title>
+ <section><title>C coding</title>
+
+ <para>Variables should be declared at the beginning of code blocks and
+ not inline because of portability with older compilers.</para>
+
<para>You should use /* */ for comments and not // as some compilers
do not handle the latter form.</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section><title>Crediting sources</title>
<para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the licence
from your source allows this. Add a comment referencing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
file, where you can put more detail about the source.</para>