Sometimes we use the 'struct' keyword to help us reduce dependencies between header files. Document that practice.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> --- I wonder if this is too terse? Should we give examples? --- HACKING | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 0fc3e0fc04..112685bdaf 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ it points to, or it is aliased to another pointer that is. 2.3. Typedefs Typedefs are used to eliminate the redundant 'struct' keyword. +However, the 'struct' keyword may be sometimes used in header +files to avoid unnecessary dependencies between headers. 2.4. Reserved namespaces in C and POSIX Underscore capital, double underscore, and underscore 't' suffixes should be -- 2.21.0
