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Posts tagged code-style

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Q&A Are there technical reasons to pick one struct coding style over the other?

C offers two different styles when it comes to structs (and union/enum too). Either declare them using a struct tag only ("struct tag style"): struct my_type { ... }; struct my_type x; Or ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1mo ago by Lundin‭

Question c code-style struct
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Q&A PEP20 on namespaces: What exactly is it saying to do?

PEP20 aka the Zen of Python has a statement: Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! What exactly are we supposed to "do" according to this? Is it saying we should h...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A What is do { } while(0) in macros and should we use it?

Background I can see the need to use { } when implementing a function-like macro such as this one: #define HCF(code) fprintf(stderr, "halt and catch fire"); exit(code); Because if we use the f...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

Question c code-style macros
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Q&A Is omitting braces for single statements bad practice?

Consider this code: while(arr[index] != 0) index++; vs while(arr[index] != 0) { index++; } Personally, I prefer the first. The fact that the braces are not needed makes them -- u...

6 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by klutt‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by H_H‭

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Q&A C naming convention, module trigrams?

For my company, I'm writing naming conventions for embedded code in C language. Function names must be named in lowerCamelCase() and start with a verb. Global variables are in Maj_started_lowe...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by AdriZ‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Dirk Herrmann‭