From: Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:06:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: r25156: Update coding guiding wrt to primitive data types
X-Git-Tag: samba-misc-tags/initial-v3-2-unstable~144
X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=sfrench%2Fsamba-autobuild%2F.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=01d42744903d7ef9044fa4d2ad1cc64594717573

r25156: Update coding guiding wrt to primitive data types
---

diff --git a/README.Coding b/README.Coding
index 73ceb5028cf..da6bb382078 100644
--- a/README.Coding
+++ b/README.Coding
@@ -214,3 +214,18 @@ or
 	if (!x) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Unable to alloc memory!\n");
 	}
+
+
+Primitive Data Types
+--------------------
+
+Samba has large amounts of historical code which makes use of data types 
+commonly supported by the C99 standard. However, at the time such types 
+as boolean and exact width integers did not exist and Samba developers 
+were forced to provide their own.  Now that these types are guaranteed to 
+be available either as part of the compiler C99 support or from lib/replace/, 
+new code should adhere to the following conventions:
+
+  * Booleans are of type "bool" (not BOOL)
+  * Boolean values are "true" and "false" (not True or False)
+  * Exact width integers are of type [u]int[8|16|32|64]_t