oRFC: 2 Coding Style Guide

OSSEC Coding Style Guide

Name

OSSEC Style Guide

Editor

  • Jeremy Rossi <jeremy at jeremyrossi dot com>

  • Christian Göttsche <cgzones at googlemail dot com>

State

Draft

Origin

Language

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1].

Goals

The OSSEC Style Guide is meant to provide framework and guide of formating code contributor to OSSEC. The overall goals are:

  • Maximize Readability of code in OSSEC;

  • Reduction in the number of bugs by removing ambiguity in code and logic flow;

  • Be as minimally invasive as possible while achieving the stated goals;

  • Trust the contributor.

Code Style

Formatter

  • Artistic Style should be used to format the source code.

  • Every code style should be achieved by a astyle command argument.

Indentation

  • 4 spaces shall be used per indentation level. –indent=spaces=4

  • Switch and case blocks shall be indented. –indent-switches

  • Preprocessor conditional statements shall be indented to the same level as the source code. –indent-preproc-cond

File endings

  • Every files shall end with a newline.

  • Every files shall have linux like line endings (\n). –lineend=linux

Breaking long lines and strings

Placing Braces and Spaces

  • Braces shall be placed according to the stroustrup style. –style=stroustrup

  • Operators shall be padded by a space. –pad-oper

  • Every branch of conditional statements shall be surrounded by brackets. –add-brackets

  • Pointer and reference operators shall be attached to the variable name. –align-pointer=name

Typedefs & Struct

Naming

  • Variables

  • Functions

  • Typedefs

  • Structs

References