Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] HACKING: remove bogus restrictions

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 07:01:16PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> We copied HACKING from libvirt but it has some bogus stuff:
> neither underscore capital, double underscore, or underscore 't' suffixes
> are reserved in Posix/C: this appears to be based on misreading of the
> C standard. Using sane prefixes is enough to avoid conflicts.
> 
> These rules are also widely violated in our codebase,

To add to that, they are even contradicted in HACKING itself
which suggests using ram_addr_t for RAM offsets (_t suffix).

> and it does not make sense to rework it all, apparently for
> no benefit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
>  HACKING | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
> index 471cf1d..0a941fc 100644
> --- a/HACKING
> +++ b/HACKING
> @@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ it points to, or it is aliased to another pointer that is.
>  2.3. Typedefs
>  Typedefs are used to eliminate the redundant 'struct' keyword.
>  
> -2.4. Reserved namespaces in C and POSIX
> -Underscore capital, double underscore, and underscore 't' suffixes should be
> -avoided.
> -
>  3. Low level memory management
>  
>  Use of the malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign
> -- 
> MST