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| author | Zach Johnson <zachoverflow@google.com> | 2015-03-24 10:05:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Zach Johnson <zachoverflow@google.com> | 2015-03-25 16:45:28 -0700 |
| commit | 72ab8914685151a39a82c6548950ee70bca90b60 (patch) | |
| tree | e33860c99800170b5a3b620ca673457dda0260b7 /doc | |
| parent | 03f182be7f2cdf06568bf046e1519ed962c89c46 (diff) | |
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Add section on booleans and bitfields to the style guide
Change-Id: I75df8b638d71bfe2ba1dc98d3eb148d8a61f5b9c
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diff --git a/doc/style_guide.md b/doc/style_guide.md index 686888f1c..f2f280498 100644 --- a/doc/style_guide.md +++ b/doc/style_guide.md @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ Use the C99 `bool` type with values `true` and `false` defined in `stdbool.h`. Not only is this a standardized type, it is also safer and provides more compile-time checks. +### Booleans instead of bitfields +Use booleans to represent boolean state, instead of a set of masks into an +integer. It's more transparent and readable, and less error prone. + ## Header files In general, every source file (`.c` or `.cpp`) in a `src/` directory should have a corresponding header (`.h`) in the `include/` directory. |