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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:33:16PM +0400, malc wrote:
> 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.

Looks like they are and I missed that.
Maybe we should add that to HACKING.

> > 
> > >> 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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