GNU coding standards: Difference between revisions

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The '''GNU Coding Standards''' document the [[programming style]] used by the [[GNU Project]]. Its main purpose is to guide all volunteers in writing portable, robust, and reliable programs; and to provide [[GNU]] tools that behave consistently.

The GNU coding standards only mention coding in one language, [[C]].

== Indentation ==

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To this rule, there are two exceptions, one is that /etc is a place to hold system configuration information, the other is that if a user explicitly asks to store files in a directory, it is reasonable of the program to store the rest of the files in the same directory.

== Portability ==