From: Ton Voon <tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:23:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Reminder of no inline variable declarations
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49f15b6bbfa6d1be2f4d24a77086e2cde6db2a91;p=nagiosplug.git

Reminder of no inline variable declarations


git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@1400 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c
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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 1861e95..6d5c813 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -643,9 +643,16 @@ setup the tests. Run "make test" to run all the tests.
 <section id="CodingGuidelines"><title>Coding guidelines</title>
 	<para>See <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html">GNU
 	Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.</para>
-	<section><title>Comments</title>
+	<section><title>C coding</title>
+	
+	<para>Variables should be declared at the beginning of code blocks and 
+	not inline because of portability with older compilers.</para>
+
 	<para>You should use /* */ for comments and not // as some compilers
 	do not handle the latter form.</para>
+	</section>
+
+	<section><title>Crediting sources</title>
 	<para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the licence
 	from your source allows this. Add a comment referencing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 	file, where you can put more detail about the source.</para>