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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2004-09-17 09:32:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2004-09-17 09:32:53 +0000 |
| commit | 7baddd7b916eef20b781ee3e695d57fba0cae55c (patch) | |
| tree | 6f4794ebc8020246a163827ec97b1ee2f4c7d2ff | |
| parent | 6bc5ac39495c4cdfd25939286b1b1cd4427a9a5b (diff) | |
Note that declarations in the middle of a block aren't supported by all
compilers, and thus shouldn't be used.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=12029
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diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 3968de7e00..cbca41f014 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -214,6 +214,16 @@ as some compilers will reject the first of those statements. Instead, initialize the array at the point at which it's first declared, so that the size is known. +Don't put declarations in the middle of a block; put them before all +code. Not all compilers support declarations in the middle of code, +such as + + int i; + + i = foo(); + + int j; + For #define names and enum member names, prefix the names with a tag so as to avoid collisions with other names - this might be more of an issue on Windows, as it appears to #define names such as DELETE and |