Coding Guidelines Generic Guidelines

The issues covered in this section apply uniformly to C, C++, and COM coding.

• File Basics
  • File Names
  • Reasonable Limits
  • Standard File Contents
  • Header Files
• Formatting
  • White Space
    • Indentation
    • Blank Lines
    • Spaces
  • Code Blocks
  • Statements
    • Continued Statements
• Comments
• Declarations and Definitions
  • Naming
    • General naming guidelines
    • Structure, typedef and class names
    • Variable Names
  • Declarations
    • Non-Hardware Dependent Declarations
    • Global Variable Declarations
    • Function Declarations
• Constants
  • Numeric Literals
  • String Literals
• Expressions
• Performance