On 2005-05-23, at 08:15, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Sixth, there is a real "mess" about name spaces. It is true that every C programmers knows the rule saying tags inhabit different name space than variable of functions. However, all the C coding standards I've read so far usually suggest typedef struct foo foo; but *not* typedef struct foo *foo; i.e. "bringing" the tag-name into normal name space to name the type structure or enumeration is OK, but not naming a different type! the latter practice will be flagged by a C++ compiler. I guess we may need some discussion about the naming of structure (POSIX reserves anything ending with "_t", so we might want to choose something so that we don't run into problem. However, I do not expect this issue to dominate the discussion :-))
In 80% of the cases you are talking about the GCC source code already follows the semi-convention of appending _s to the parent type.
