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

[malc]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 28 August 2012 18:21, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > We are talking about stuff like __kvm_pv_eoi - so the chance is exactly 0.
> > And if it does happen then you run a simple script and fix
> > this one instance.
> 
> Why not just use a name that doesn't use a double underscore
> in the first place? The C standard specifically allows single
> underscore + lowercase to give things other than the implementation
> part of the underscore-namespace. In this case, "_kvm_pv_eoi"
> would be OK.

No it wouldn't, _kvm_pv_eoi is a file scope identifier, and names 
beginning with underscore are reserved in this context.

> 
> >> The tiny single benefit from violating the rules would be that you
> >> could use a few additional possible classes of prefixes, in addition
> >> to the infinite combinations already available.
> >
> > Benefit would be consistency with existing QEMU code
> > which has both _t __  and _X, and consistency
> > within HACKING itself.
> 
> HACKING and CODING_STYLE contain a number of rules which
> the existing codebase doesn't fully conform to. The idea
> is to incrementally improve consistency and correctness.
> 
> -- PMM
> 

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