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0. The buildbot.
http://tor-buildbot.freehaven.net:8010/
1. Coding conventions
1.0. Whitespace and C conformance
Invoke "make check-spaces" from time to time, so it can tell you about
deviations from our C whitespace style. Generally, we use:
- Unix-style line endings
- K&R-style indentation
- No space before newlines
- A blank line at the end of each file
- Never more than one blank line in a row
- Always spaces, never tabs
- A space between control keywords and their corresponding paren
"if (x)", "while (x)", and "switch (x)", never "if(x)", "while(x)", or
"switch(x)".
- A space between anything and an open brace.
- No space between a function name and an opening paren. "puts(x)", not
"puts (x)".
- Function declarations at the start of the line.
We try hard to build without warnings everywhere. In particular, if you're
using gcc, you should invoke the configure script with the option
"--enable-gcc-warnings". This will give a bunch of extra warning flags to
the compiler, and help us find divergences from our preferred C style.
1.1. Details
Use tor_malloc, tor_free, tor_strdup, and tor_gettimeofday instead of their
generic equivalents. (They always succeed or exit.)
You can get a full list of the compatibility functions that Tor provides
by looking through src/common/util.h and src/common/compat.h.
Use 'INLINE' instead of 'inline', so that we work properly on Windows.
1.2. Calling and naming conventions
Whenever possible, functions should return -1 on error and 0 on success.
For multi-word identifiers, use lowercase words combined with
underscores. (e.g., "multi_word_identifier"). Use ALL_CAPS for macros and
constants.
Typenames should end with "_t".
Function names should be prefixed with a module name or object name. (In
general, code to manipulate an object should be a module with the same
name as the object, so it's hard to tell which convention is used.)
Functions that do things should have imperative-verb names
(e.g. buffer_clear, buffer_resize); functions that return booleans should
have predicate names (e.g. buffer_is_empty, buffer_needs_resizing).
1.3. What To Optimize
Don't optimize anything if it's not in the critical path. Right now,
the critical path seems to be AES, logging, and the network itself.
Feel free to do your own profiling to determine otherwise.
1.4. Log conventions
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#LogLevels
No error or warning messages should be expected during normal OR or OP
operation.
If a library function is currently called such that failure always
means ERR, then the library function should log WARN and let the caller
log ERR.
[XXX Proposed convention: every message of severity INFO or higher should
either (A) be intelligible to end-users who don't know the Tor source; or
(B) somehow inform the end-users that they aren't expected to understand
the message (perhaps with a string like "internal error"). Option (A) is
to be preferred to option (B). -NM]
1.5. Doxygen
We use the 'doxygen' utility to generate documentation from our
source code. Here's how to use it:
1. Begin every file that should be documented with
/**
* \file filename.c
* \brief Short desccription of the file.
**/
(Doxygen will recognize any comment beginning with /** as special.)
2. Before any function, structure, #define, or variable you want to
document, add a comment of the form:
/** Describe the function's actions in imperative sentences.
*
* Use blank lines for paragraph breaks
* - and
* - hyphens
* - for
* - lists.
*
* Write <b>argument_names</b> in boldface.
*
* \code
* place_example_code();
* between_code_and_endcode_commands();
* \endcode
*/
3. Make sure to escape the characters "<", ">", "\", "%" and "#" as "\<",
"\>", "\\", "\%", and "\#".
4. To document structure members, you can use two forms:
struct foo {
/** You can put the comment before an element; */
int a;
int b; /**< Or use the less-than symbol to put the comment
* after the element. */
};
5. To generate documentation from the Tor source code, type:
$ doxygen -g
To generate a file called 'Doxyfile'. Edit that file and run
'doxygen' to generate the API documentation.
6. See the Doxygen manual for more information; this summary just
scratches the surface.
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