It was not obvious to me why "qemu/osdep.h" must be the first #include.
This documents the rationale and the overall #include order.

Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1479307161-24658-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

It seems like there's no good reason for the compiler to exploit the
undefinedness of left shifts.  GCC explicitly documents that they do not
use at all this possibility and, while they also say this is subject
to change, they have been saying this for 10 years (since the wording
appeared in the GCC 4.0 manual).

Disable these warnings by passing in -Wno-shift-negative-value.

Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[pranith: forward-port part of patch to 2.7]
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

Inspired by an RFC PATCH from Lluís Vilanova.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454522628-28294-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>

Also extend documentation of target_ulong and abi_ulong.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

This is preparatory to the introduction of a separate freeing API.

Reported-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1368454796-14989-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Add a section to HACKING saying which version of the C spec
we use and describing the bits of implementation defined C
compiler behaviour which C code in QEMU is allowed to rely on.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

target_phys_addr_t is unwieldly, violates the C standard (_t suffixes are
reserved) and its purpose doesn't match the name (most target_phys_addr_t
addresses are not target specific).  Replace it with a finger-friendly,
standards conformant hwaddr.

Outstanding patchsets can be fixed up with the command

  git rebase -i --exec 'find -name "*.[ch]"
                        | xargs s/target_phys_addr_t/hwaddr/g' origin

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Reword the section on strncpy: its NUL-filling is important
in some cases.  Mention that pstrcpy's signature is different.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Clarify the allocation/free recommendations; this is mostly
just tidying up following the global-search-and-replace done
with the conversion to the GLib g_malloc and friends.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

7267c094 missed
a few cases, fix them.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Hopefully all functions with printf like arguments now use format checking.

This was tested with default build configuration on linux
and windows hosts (including some cross compilations),
so chances are good that there remain few (if any) functions
without format checking.

Therefore the last comment in HACKING is no longer valid but misleading.

Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

Add rules for printf-like functions, based on libvirt HACKING.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Add string management rules, somewhat like libvirt HACKING.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Add memory management rules, somewhat like libvirt HACKING.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Add C type rules, adapted from libvirt HACKING. Also include
a description of special QEMU scalar types.

Move typedef rule from CODING_STYLE rule 3 to HACKING rule 6
where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Add a new file, HACKING, in order to collect recurring
issues with submitted patches.

Start with preprocessor rules, adapted from libvirt HACKING.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>