/contrib/ntp/README.hackers

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  1. Notes to hackers.
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  3. See README.patches for information about submitting patches.
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  7. Dave likes this code indented formatted in a consistent way.
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  8. The file "dot.emacs" has the emacs C-mode indentation style that Dave likes.
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  12. NTP4 uses ANSI C.  Some folks are blessed with a pre-ansi C compiler.  We
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  13. support them by using "ansi2knr" in the Makefiles, which is automatically
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  14. detected and selected by the configure process.
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  16. For ansi2knr to work, we MUST define functions as follows:
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  18. type stuff
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  19. function_name ( actual parameters )
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  21. While the whitespace is optional, the function name MUST start at column 0.
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  25. We'd like to see *all* system function declarations live in include/l_stdlib.h
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  26. and NEVER appear in the .c files.
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