On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Gerald Combs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/12/13 1:17 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote: >> On 02/11/2013 06:36 PM, Evan Huus wrote: >>> Moving just to a C++ compiler shouldn't cause problems for anybody. >>> While C++ isn't technically a superset of C, it is trivial for C >>> programmers to avoid the few areas of incompatibility (as far as I >>> know there are simply a few more reserved words like 'new' to avoid in >>> variable names). >>> >> >> Add this the the reading list: http://david.tribble.com/text/cdiffs.htm >> May not be all applicable (C89 and such) but show what a can-o-worms it can >> be. >> That's probably where that 7k number comes from. > > When starting on the Qt code I found the Google C++ Style Guide to be > helpful: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml > Anyone outside of Google probably shouldn't adhere to it strictly but > it provides clean, concise descriptions on why they do and don't do > various things. > > We should steal the format for README.developer, BTW.
Rather tangentially, I would like to split README.developer into two: - README.developer (for style and general practices) - README.dissector (for all the stuff specific to writing a dissector) Its current form is growing rather long and hard to navigate. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
