Differences with year 2002

Starting with 2003, the assistants decided to revert to a short specification written in french, for readability convenience.

The english document you are now reading is now a complement that can optionnally used as a substitute.

Here is a summary of the major changes:

• Names are required to match a regular expression.
• Preprocessor directives indentation between #if and #endif is now mandatory.
• Header protection tags now have a _ appended.
• Multiple declarations per line are now forbidden, due to abuses during the past year.
• Cumulated declaration and initialization is now explicitely authorized.
• Local external declarations (extern in block scope) are now implicitely authorized.
• Statement keywords without argument are not followed by a white space anymore.
• else if cannot appear on a single line any more.
• Single-line empty loops are now forbidden (the traling semicolon must appear on the following line).
• Return-by-value of structures and unions is now implicitely authorized.
• typedef of structures and unions is now disallowed.
• Line count for function bodies is now absolute again (empty lines, assert calls and switch cases are counted).
• Project recommendations now insist on the fact that GCC must not always be used and that the configure script is not always allowed.
• Sample Makefile and configure scripts are not provided anymore.