tlbuild: Coding conventions

 
 8 Coding conventions
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 Ideally, building all of TeX Live with '--enable-compiler-warnings=max'
 should produce no (GCC) compiler warnings at all.  In spite of
 considerable efforts into that direction we are still far from that goal
 and there are reasons that we may never fully reach it.  Below are some
 rules about declarations of functions or variables and the use of
 'const'.  These rules should be applied to the code maintained in the
 TeX Live tree and for other packages whose maintainers are willing to
 accept patches.
 

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