In our coding style document we have examples of good and bad
code, which we mark as:
// Good
// Bad
respectively. But in the very same document we advocate for using
C style of comments over C++. Follow our own advice and switch
annotation to:
/* Good */
/* Bad */
And while at it, align these annotations within their blocks for
better readability.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Preserving the order of format strings (%s, ...) when translating
messages may be very hard or even impossible depending on the target
language. On the other hand, reordering them requires understanding the
C-format strings which is not something we should expect from
translators. And even if someone reorders format strings in the right
way (by addressing arguments directly using N$), someone else may use a
translation tool that requires format strings in msgid and msgstr to
match exactly and forces these correct formats to be reverted.
As a result of this, we had several reported crashes in some locales
because integers were formatted as strings. So to make such crashes less
likely to happen and to make translating our messages easier, we now
require all messages that are marked for translation to use format
strings that always refer to the same argument no matter where they
appear in a message (e.g., %1$s, %5$llu).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
There is so far one case where STRCASEPREFIX(a, b) && a +
strlen(b) combo is used (in virVMXConfigScanResultsCollector()),
but there will be more. Do what we do usually: introduce a macro.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
We document use of our STR*() macros, but somehow missed
STRCASEPREFIX() and STRSKIP().
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
We require a space after a comma and even document this in our
coding style document. However, our own rule is broken in the
very same document when listing string comparison macros.
Separate macro arguments properly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
While we all understand that excessive use of ternary operator
may worsen code readability (e.g. nested, multi-line expression),
there are few cases where using it actually improves code
readability. For instance, when a function takes a long list of
arguments out of which one depends on a boolean expression, or
when formatting "yes"/"no" or "on"/"off" values based on a
boolean variable (although one can argue that the latter is a
subset of the former). Just consider alternatives to:
virBufferAsprintf(buf, "<elem>%s</elem>\n", boolVar ? "yes" : "no");
In fact, this pattern occurs plenty in our code. Exempt it from
our "no ternary operators" rule.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The G_GNUC_NO_INLINE macro will eventually be marked as
deprecated [1] and we are recommended to use G_NO_INLINE instead.
Do the switch now, rather than waiting for compile time warning
to occur.
1: 15cd0f0461
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
This was not mentioned before.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
This partially reverts commit 9ccbed6afb.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
The code style showed `bool hasFoos; if (hasFoos == true)` as a
good example in one place, only to warn against comparisons with
`true` a couple of paragraphs further down.
Merge this advice on comparing with `true` into the "Conditional
expressions" section and split the example up for readability.
Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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>
