Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023
by circuit10 on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:15PM
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Unless they were defined to completely different types, that shouldn’t be an error
Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023
by lelanthran on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:36AM
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> Unless they were defined to completely different types, that shouldn’t be an error
In this case it almost certainly will be - after all, the blog posts `byte` is defined as char, which could be signed or unsigned. A correct typedef for `byte` is `uint8_t`, so it's almost guaranteed that this will conflict.
Which is why I said it's best not to redefine the primitive types - you're almost certain to conflict with someone else who defined it differently.
I gotta be honest, all of those style suggestions look good until you try them in a non-solo and non-isolated project, and then you see what a mess you created.
We've all been there, as C programmers, and we've all done that in the past, which is why we don't do it anymore