From d8432fdd4f13e9f9d1d44f5482faeb56562661a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: marha Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:08:15 +0000 Subject: Switched to xorg-server-1.7.99.2 --- xorg-server/doc/c-extensions | 61 -------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 61 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 xorg-server/doc/c-extensions (limited to 'xorg-server/doc/c-extensions') diff --git a/xorg-server/doc/c-extensions b/xorg-server/doc/c-extensions deleted file mode 100644 index eb33e272b..000000000 --- a/xorg-server/doc/c-extensions +++ /dev/null @@ -1,61 +0,0 @@ -First of all: C89 or better. If you don't have that, port gcc first. - -Use of C language extensions throughout the X server tree ---------------------------------------------------------- - -Optional extensions: -The server will still build if your toolchain does not support these -extensions, although the results may not be optimal. - - * _X_SENTINEL(x): member x of the passed structure must be NULL, e.g.: - void parseOptions(Option *options _X_SENTINEL(0)); - parseOptions("foo", "bar", NULL); /* this is OK */ - parseOptions("foo", "bar", "baz"); /* this is not */ - This definition comes from Xfuncproto.h in the core - protocol headers. - * _X_ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(x, y): This function has printf-like semantics; - check the format string when built with - -Wformat (gcc) or similar. - * _X_EXPORT: this function should appear in symbol tables. - * _X_HIDDEN: this function should not appear in the _dynamic_ symbol - table. - * _X_INTERNAL: like _X_HIDDEN, but attempt to ensure that this function - is never called from another module. - * _X_INLINE: inline this functon if possible (generally obeyed unless - disabling optimisations). - * _X_DEPRECATED: warn on use of this function. - -Mandatory extensions: -The server will not build if your toolchain does not support these extensions. - - * named initialisers: explicitly initialising structure members, e.g.: - struct foo bar = { .baz = quux, .brian = "dog" }; - * variadic macros: macros with a variable number of arguments, e.g.: - #define DebugF(x, ...) /**/ - * interleaved code and declarations: { foo = TRUE; int bar; do_stuff(); } - - -Use of OS and library facilities throughout the X server tree -------------------------------------------------------------- - -Non-OS-dependent code can assume facilities at least as good as -the non-OS-facility parts of POSIX-1.2001. Ideally this would -be C99, but even gcc+glibc doesn't implement that yet. - -Unix-like systems are assumed to be at least as good as UNIX03. - -Linux systems must be at least 2.4 or later. As a practical matter -though, 2.4 kernels never receive any testing. Use 2.6 already. - -TODO: Solaris. - -TODO: *BSD. - -Code that needs to be portable to Windows should be careful to, -well, be portable. Note that there are two Windows ports, cygwin and -mingw. Cygwin is more or less like Linux, but mingw is a bit more -restrictive. TODO: document which versions of Windows we actually care -about. - -OSX support is generally limited to the most recent version. Currently -that means 10.5. -- cgit v1.2.3