Coding Guidelines

This article summarizes the "things every developer should know". This will never be an exhaustive list, but it provides a convenient, common place to share the many guidelines and suggestions that each developer has in his or her head.

See also DEVELOPING in the top-level source directory.

• Coding Guidelines/Coding Style
• Coding Guidelines/Asynchronous Programming (event-based programming)
• Coding Guidelines/Command-line Processing
• Coding Guidelines/Compiler Features
• Coding Guidelines/Configuration
• Coding Guidelines/Debugging Functions
• Coding Guidelines/Error Handling
• Coding Guidelines/File Locking
• Coding Guidelines/Filesystem Manipulation
• Coding Guidelines/Glib Utilities
• Coding Guidelines/GValue Handling
• Coding Guidelines/Internationalization
• Coding Guidelines/IPv6 Support
• Coding Guidelines/Memory Allocation
• Coding Guidelines/Parsing Functions
• Coding Guidelines/Perl Pitfalls
• Coding Guidelines/Quoting
• Coding Guidelines/Safely Executing Other Processes
• Coding Guidelines/String Functions
• Coding Guidelines/SWIG Gotchas

Also see:

• Perl Interface for an overview of Amanda's perl modules
• Testing to see how Amanda's testing architecture can help you

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