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Coding Style Guide
==================

Line lengths

  Try to keep lines less than 80 characters.

  Break lines after logical separators

  Vertically align like constructs

Indents

  Place function definition { in column 1

  Place function definition } in column 1

  Intent nested constructs by 2 characters

  void func()
  {
    stmt
    if (expr)
      stmt2
  }

Tabs

  Use only 8 column tabs

Layouts

  if (expr)
    statement

  // If expr and statement are brief
  if (expr) statement

  if (expr1) {
  }
  else {
  }

  // If expression must be wrapped
  // align like constructs vertically
  if (expr1 &&
      expr2))
  {
  }

  while (expr) {
  }

  for (expr; expr; expr) {
  }

  typedef struct {

  } TYPENAME;

Variable definitions

  Define one per line

    INT a;
    INT b;

  not

    INT a,b;

Spaces

  Separate keywords from leading paren with 1 space

    if (expr) dothis

  No space between function name and leading paren
  No space between last arg and trailing paren

    func()

  Follow separating commas and semicolons with a space

    x = func(a, c)

  Surround binary operators with a leading and trailing spaces

    x = a + b

  Try to avoid spurious internal and trailing whitespace

Memory

 - Check all malloc/realloc/strdup/DosAllocMem calls
   Use xmalloc in non-time critical code
   Use xrealloc in non-time critical code
   Use xstrdup in non-time critical code

 - Use xfree rather than free

Windows

 - Check all WinCreateWindow calls
 - Check QWL_USER pointer data

Error notifications

  DosBeep(50,100)       Alert user to operator error
                        Use only when failure reason is obvious

  saymsg                Alert user to operator error with popup

  Runtime_Error         Report "should not occur" errors
  Dos_Error
  Win_Error

$Id: CodingStyle.txt 459 2006-08-24 05:10:24Z root $