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author | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2015-11-23 21:11:53 +0100 |
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committer | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2015-11-30 16:33:15 +0100 |
commit | fad3035e8d84dd3cbd166b9722127da373d34554 (patch) | |
tree | 573e99e733a3543381dfcaaa9fe4daa0ab6428c2 /doc | |
parent | a7751824ce8a7e1cc5511794516fe674bc3eaa3c (diff) |
[doc] Minor markdown fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/developer-notes.md | 24 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/unit-tests.md | 10 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md index 01eea931ad..358792251b 100644 --- a/doc/developer-notes.md +++ b/doc/developer-notes.md @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ General Bitcoin Core - *Rationale*: RPC allows for better automatic testing. The test suite for the GUI is very limited -- Make sure pulls pass Travis CI before merging +- Make sure pull requests pass Travis CI before merging - *Rationale*: Makes sure that they pass thorough testing, and that the tester will keep passing on the master branch. Otherwise all new pull requests will start failing the tests, resulting in @@ -230,9 +230,9 @@ General Bitcoin Core Wallet ------- -- Make sure that that no crashes happen with run-time option `-disablewallet`. +- Make sure that no crashes happen with run-time option `-disablewallet`. - - *Rationale*: In RPC code that conditionally use the wallet (such as + - *Rationale*: In RPC code that conditionally uses the wallet (such as `validateaddress`) it is easy to forget that global pointer `pwalletMain` can be NULL. See `qa/rpc-tests/disablewallet.py` for functional tests exercising the API with `-disablewallet` @@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ General C++ with assertions disabled, having side-effects in assertions is unexpected and makes the code harder to understand -- If you use the .h, you must link the .cpp +- If you use the `.h`, you must link the `.cpp` - - *Rationale*: Include files are the interface for the implementation file. Including one but + - *Rationale*: Include files define the interface for the code in implementation files. Including one but not linking the other is confusing. Please avoid that. Moving functions from the `.h` to the `.cpp` should not result in build errors @@ -264,11 +264,11 @@ General C++ C++ data structures -------------------- -- Never use the std::map [] syntax when reading from a map, but instead use .find() +- Never use the `std::map []` syntax when reading from a map, but instead use `.find()` - - *Rationale*: [] does an insert (of the default element) if the item doesn't + - *Rationale*: `[]` does an insert (of the default element) if the item doesn't exist in the map yet. This has resulted in memory leaks in the past, as well as - race conditions (expecting read-read behavior). Using [] is fine for *writing* to a map + race conditions (expecting read-read behavior). Using `[]` is fine for *writing* to a map - Do not compare an iterator from one data structure with an iterator of another data structure (even if of the same type) @@ -304,18 +304,18 @@ C++ data structures Strings and formatting ------------------------ -- Be careful of LogPrint versus LogPrintf. LogPrint takes a 'category' argument, LogPrintf does not. +- Be careful of `LogPrint` versus `LogPrintf`. `LogPrint` takes a `category` argument, `LogPrintf` does not. - *Rationale*: Confusion of these can result in runtime exceptions due to formatting mismatch, and it is easy to get wrong because of subtly similar naming -- Use std::string, avoid C string manipulation functions +- Use `std::string`, avoid C string manipulation functions - *Rationale*: C++ string handling is marginally safer, less scope for - buffer overflows and surprises with \0 characters. Also some C string manipulations + buffer overflows and surprises with `\0` characters. Also some C string manipulations tend to act differently depending on platform, or even the user locale -- Use ParseInt32, ParseInt64, ParseDouble from `utilstrencodings.h` for number parsing +- Use `ParseInt32`, `ParseInt64`, `ParseDouble` from `utilstrencodings.h` for number parsing - *Rationale*: These functions do overflow checking, and avoid pesky locale issues diff --git a/doc/unit-tests.md b/doc/unit-tests.md index 72613054b9..afaece829c 100644 --- a/doc/unit-tests.md +++ b/doc/unit-tests.md @@ -1,18 +1,18 @@ Compiling/running unit tests ------------------------------------ -Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in configure +Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in `./configure` and tests weren't explicitly disabled. -After configuring, they can be run with 'make check'. +After configuring, they can be run with `make check`. -To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin . +To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch `src/test/test_bitcoin`. To add more bitcoind tests, add `BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE` functions to the existing -.cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that +.cpp files in the `test/` directory or add new .cpp files that implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections. -To run the bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt +To run the bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch `src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt` To add more bitcoin-qt tests, add them to the `src/qt/test/` directory and the `src/qt/test/test_main.cpp` file. |