Historically, we declared pointer type to our types:
typedef struct _virXXX virXXX;
typedef virXXX *virXXXPtr;
But usefulness of such declaration is questionable, at best.
Unfortunately, we can't drop every such declaration - we have to
carry some over, because they are part of public API (e.g.
virDomainPtr). But for internal types - we can do drop them and
use what every other C project uses 'virXXX *'.
This change was generated by a very ugly shell script that
generated sed script which was then called over each file in the
repository. For the shell script refer to the cover letter:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-March/msg00537.html
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
We don't like virXXXPtr typedefs really and they are going away
shortly, possibly. Do not encourage new code to put in the
typedefs.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The function is now unused and motivated users to write crazy parsers
which were hard to understand, had pointless error paths just to avoid
few memory allocations.
Remove the function as we're fine with g_strndup and virStrcpy.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The idea is to have it like a soft limit: if possible then break
lines, if not then have a long line instead of some creative
approach.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Recently I've merged a patch that used hyphens in an attribute
name. I fixed it later, but turned out we don't document our
preference which is camelCase.
Suggested-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
This syntax rule doesn't make much sense, especially if there are so
much exceptions to it. Just remove it and adjust the coding style.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Currently, we are mixing: #if HAVE_BLAH with #if WITH_BLAH.
Things got way better with Pavel's work on meson, but apparently,
mixing these two lead to confusing and easy to miss bugs (see
31fb929eca for instance). While we were forced to use HAVE_
prefix with autotools, we are free to chose our own prefix with
meson and since WITH_ prefix appears to be more popular let's use
it everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Use https: links for websites that support them.
The URIs which are used as namespace identifiers
are left alone.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Although we have nothing in make syntax-check to enforce this, and
apparently there are places where it isn't the case (according to
Dan), we should discourage the practice of defining new variables in
the middle of a block of code.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-July/msg00433.html
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This format is much easier to tweak and update.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This part represents the biggest chunk of the existing hacking.rst, and
despite that its utility is very limited because 'make syntax-check'
already guarantees most of the rules are followed over time.
Until the glorious day we finally codify our coding style completely
into a configuration for a tool such as clang-format and thus no longer
need a plain English description of it, move this part to a separate
page.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
