Coding Guidelines

General Recommendations

GNU Standards is also a good read for developers in general.

C Coding

All C code should be done in the C99 standard -- it's much more maintainable, less error prone, clean and concise, and removes a lot of C's warts.

Here is some good information about C99:

• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-c99.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07UsingC99
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_language#C99

This is a good C coding guide:

• GNOME Programming Guidelines

C++ Coding

• C++ Style Guidelines
• C++ Programming Code Style (WikiBooks)

Commit Logs

GNU Change Log Guidelines