[s1mp3-dev] C compliance was Re: [Swan API] STDIO module

[Bluechip]

> >>>>>I would also highlight the fact that the Swan API is *not* C compliant.
> >>>>>
> >>>>Right.
> >>>>
> >>>hy have you chosen to drop C compliancy?
> >>>...It seems (to me) like a VERY weird choice.
> >>>
> >>Oh, I have chosen nothing. I just thought you were reporting a choice
> >>done before I had joined the project
> >>So the filesystem module needs a C compliance rewrital.
> >>
> >>
> >You asked my advice on this module the other day (off-group) - I
> >guessed that your choice to ignore that conversation was deliberate
> >rather than accidental.
> >
> >
>I just thought: "we are not going to be 100% C compliant because we
>probably can't".
>I think we can write the OS-level C compliant functions without problems
>with this hardware, so I simply misunderstood your statement.
>
>I suggest to add an introductive paragraph to
>http://www.s1mp3.org/wiki/index.php/Code_conventions to explicitly state
>that we will follow the C standard as best as we can; are you going to?

Personally, there are parts of the C convention that I like to breach.
Such as commenting with //
I also have an interesting apporach to indentation of variable declaration.

If you meant will I edit the wiki ...no thanks, it gives me headache 
trying to edit those damn things.
Someone who knows about such things really ought to go through and 
clean up what is there already.

BC


>--
>   Legolas
>
> >BC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>>>I would like to documentate the file system API as a "job" for
> >>>>>the API team.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>The FS API is defined by 'C' ...it is just a matter of implementing it.
> >>>>fopen
> >>>>fclose
> >>>>fseek
> >>>>fread
> >>>>fwrite
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>You are right, the only real change I proposed was not to use a
> >>>null terminated string for the modes, but it is a minor change, indeed.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
> >>
> >>ANSI C ...the saving is not worth breaking a 30 year-old standard for.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >(ok) I really didn't think about it...
> >
> >
> >
> >>>>there is no standardised way to access directories in 'C' ...I
> >>>>would suggest:
> >>>>findfirst
> >>>>findnext
> >>>>as the simplest solution I have seen (used by DJGPP)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>I will write that later on the wiki if you haven't before.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>There may be more elegant solutions, feel free to cogitate.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Note taken.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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