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| author | Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> | 2016-06-15 14:14:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com> | 2016-06-15 21:21:54 +0000 |
| commit | a8f73e92fde0b7055004e4d3d518ffcfd447815c (patch) | |
| tree | 2b99787931906d2b31babe767e4770fb391acc9d /doc | |
| parent | 04058b8af3e36070721e807ae0ecdac4b411a5dc (diff) | |
documentation: Suggest using prefixed public symbols
Change-Id: I9153756b0e921fd74d7df9d119337f5484856ba0
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/15940
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 45868e5208..d7e5a09af1 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -659,6 +659,11 @@ intercaps for functions and variable names. This is especially important if you are writing code that will be called from outside your code. We are just trying to keep things consistent for other developers. +C symbols exported from libraries shipped with Wireshark should start with a +prefix that helps avoiding name collision with public symbols from other shared +libraries. The current suggested prefixes for newly added symbols are +ws_, wslua_, wmem_ and wtap_. + 5. White space convention. Please avoid using tab expansions different from 8 column widths, as not all |