Index: CODING-GUIDELINES =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvsroot/asterisk/doc/CODING-GUIDELINES,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 CODING-GUIDELINES --- CODING-GUIDELINES 10 Jul 2005 23:58:07 -0000 1.16 +++ CODING-GUIDELINES 19 Jul 2005 16:16:22 -0000 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ All code, filenames, function names and comments must be in ENGLISH. -Do not declare variables mid-function (e.g. like recent GNU compilers support) +Do not declare variables mid-function (e.g. like recent GNU compilers support) since it is harder to read and not portable to GCC 2.95 and others. Don't annotate your changes with comments like "/* JMG 4/20/04 */"; @@ -34,10 +34,31 @@ unless you specifically want to allow non-base-10 input; '%d' is always a better choice, since it will not silently turn numbers with leading zeros into base-8. +Set your tab size to 4. + +Use spaces instead of tabs when aligning in-line comments or #defines (this makes +your comments aligned even if the code is viewed with another tabsize) + Roughly, Asterisk code formatting guidelines are generally equivalent to the following: -# indent -i4 -ts4 -br -brs -cdw -cli0 -ce -nbfda -npcs -npsl foo.c +# indent -i4 -ts4 -br -brs -cdw -cli0 -ce -nbfda -npcs -nprs -npsl -saf -sai -saw foo.c + +this means in verbose: + -i4: indent level 4 + -ts4: tab size 4 + -br: braces on if line + -brs: braces on struct decl line + -cdw: cuddle do while + -cli0: case indentation 0 + -ce: cuddle else + -nbfda: dont break function decl args + -npcs: no space after function call names + -nprs: no space after parentheses + -npsl: dont break procedure type + -saf: space after for + -sai: space after if + -saw: space after while Function calls and arguments should be spaced in a consistent way across the codebase.