From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: __function API
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:23:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4239E751.4040906@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503171312.14183.hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>[resending to the still-active list]
>
>I have a question about function naming conventions in headers. I've been
>assuming that the __ prefix means "internal", i.e. not really part of the
>exported API of a header. But I see code like this in
>include/asm-x86/shadow.h:
>
>
Technically, no identifiers should ever begin with a '__' prefix. This
prefix is reserved for any use by the C standard (section 7.1.3) and is
commonly used to generate temporaries by compilers.
Xen does use '__' frequently as a prefix. I'm not sure it's worth
removing. It's probably best to avoid doing this in new code though.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-17 20:23 UTC|newest]
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2005-03-17 19:12 __function API Hollis Blanchard
2005-03-17 20:23 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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2005-03-17 21:06 Ian Pratt
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