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HDRCHK 1ONBLD "Jul 02, 2008"
NAME
hdrchk - check that header files conform to ON standards
SYNOPSIS
hdrchk [-a] file [file ...]
DESCRIPTION

hdrchk verifies that C header files (*.h) conform to the standards of the ON consolidation. See HEADER STANDARDS for details.

OPTIONS

10 -a Apply (more lenient) application header rules.

HEADER STANDARDS

Standards for all header files:

4 1. Begin with a comment containing a copyright message.

4 2. Enclosed in a guard of the form:

 #ifndef GUARD
 #define GUARD
 #endif /* [!]GUARD */

The preferred form is without the bang character, but either is acceptable.

4 3. Has a valid ident declaration.

Additional standards for system header files:

4 1. The file guard must take the form '_FILENAME_H[_]', where FILENAME matches the basename of the file. If it is installed in a subdirectory, it should be of the form '_DIR_FILENAME_H[_]', though this is not currently enforced. The form without the trailing underscore is preferred in both cases.

4 2. All #include directives must use the <> form.

4 3. If the header file contains anything besides comments and preprocessor directives, then it must be enclosed in a C++ guard of the form:

 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif

 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif