annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 14960:0c80979077cf

[gaim-migrate @ 17738] * Patch from Christopher "cuberoot" to fix the repeated, CPU-intensive call loop on url_fetch_recv_cb() which was discussed on gaim-devl with the subject "Yahoo (and maybe others): gaim_util_fetch_url_request() at 100% CPU until complete with repeated EAGAIN". He writes: "When read() returns 0, that means eof... period. Don't check errno, don't collect $200. The loop was caused by eof condition when errno had previously been EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK. The CPU-bound loop stopped when errno happened to be overwritten. I also believe trying to use some/part of an HTTP request on ETIMEDOUT to be a mistake so I removed it. Funny enough the read(2) manpage doesn't document ETIMEDOUT as a possible errno, but it is. (see tcp_timer.c and tcp_subr.c in src/sys/netinet)." This closes Adium Trac ticket #5685. * Added some passing-NULL-to-printf() safety which has been sitting around in this file locally for a while, waiting for a worthwhile commit to accompany. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)