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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-06-11 14:16:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-06-11 14:17:39 -0700 |
| commit | fdbea0870e4abecfa28eb5b196104fcd18e1c6d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 554c706737045e5766d658f547ce9da85ebaf0b6 /Documentation/CodingGuidelines | |
| parent | d50a5e8939abfc07c2ff97ae72e9330939b36ee0 (diff) | |
CodingGuidelines: let BSS do its job
We have mentioned this in various reviews, but I didn't see it
mentioned in the CodingGuildelines document. Let's add it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index a0e7041c54..4d1d52aa37 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ For C programs: encouraged to have a blank line between the end of the declarations and the first statement in the block. + - Do not explicitly initialize global variables to 0 or NULL; + instead, let BSS take care of the zero initialization. + - NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0. - When declaring pointers, the star sides with the variable |