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- (status of this guideline: proposed by JustinMason. everyone happy with it?)
- (+1 – Daniel Quinlan)
- (+1 – DuncanFindlay)
C CodingStyle
In our C code we took the easiest way and adopted the \[http://www.apache.org/dev/styleguide.html Apache Developers' C Language Style Guide\]. Wiki Markup
One addition, arising from \[http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4593 bug 4593\]: if there are warnings about variables being signed/unsigned, caused by use of "int" types in system calls that accept "size_t" (or similar), it is better to \ *carefully\* perform a cast in the call(s) to the specific system calls being warned about, instead of changing the type of variables on a global scale to be a "size_t". Bug 4593 is a good example of how this can cause bugs as a side-effect due to -1 being used as an error indicator. Wiki Markup
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