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- From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Prefixing functions with return type..
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:26:36 GMT
- Organization: Wallingford
- Message-ID: <DoKtsD.5M7@polo.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4hstf8$jf3@cybernews.cyberus.ca> <1996Mar14.080731.15076@Watt.COM> <1996Mar18.201616.6958@watt.com>
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-
- In article <1996Mar18.201616.6958@watt.com>,
- Adrian P Stephens <aps@symbionics.co.uk> wrote:
- [snip]
- >Our standards also require explicit
- >identification of the size returned if it is an integer. This is of
- >benefit if you are doing emulation/debugging without a symbolic emulator/
- >debugger (and how many do that??), but otherwise doesn't allow you to
- >pretend you've got "opaque types" in "C". Also, for some things where
- >the type is not selected until compile time (e.g. integer sizes and
- >size_t particularly) you cannot select a name which is legal in the
- >sense of these standards.
- >
- >Here's an example from a bit of code I'm working on now:
- >
- >extern TX_MANAGEMENT_PKT * psTxManagementPktTXP_NewTxBeaconPkt(void);
-
- Aaaargh! All those wishing to avoid working for this company,
- please form an orderly queue. Don't push.
-
- >
- >Elements required in our standard:
- >
- > TX_MANAGEMENT_PKT - all upper case because it's a typedef/struct
- > p - pointer to ...
- > sTxManagementPkt - a structure of this type (but case converted)
- > TXP - name of module containing global export
- > "NewTxBeaconPkt" - What I orginally called the routine before
- > - I read our coding standards.
- >
- >
- >Oh, and finally another example from real code:
- >
- >/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > * Routine: u32GetU32
- > *
- > * Parameters: Name r/w Usage
- > * char ** *w ppcParams
- > *
- > * Returns: u32 value
- > *
- > * Description:
- > * Read and return a u32 value from the command-line, reading decimal
- > * numbers by default, or hex if preceded by "0x".
- > *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
- >extern u32 u32GetU32(char ** ppcParams);
- >
- >Which, I guess, answers "<<++>>" above.
-
- Which I guess is as damning a condemnation of Hungarian notation as
- you're going to get.
-
- John
-
- --
- John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
-