[Stormdos-develop] OOP and kernel

[Juras <yb...@tu...>]

Hello stormdos-develop,

  I've succeeded in my summer examination session (6 exams, uhfff!)
  and ready to continue work for SD community ;)

  I'm eager to use basic OOP via Pascal Objects (I don't mean standard units like
  "objects" and any part of *Vision or Delphi classes).

  We should not use extensively OOP where it is needed and where not.
  We'd better write not a very clean, understandable mixed code but provide
  extensive comments...

  Well, OOP is good to define abstract layers
  (memory or file mappings, linked lists, modules, image executables
  etc.).

  Now I work at "genutils" units, then I want to write a nice PE-Image
  manipulating library, which will be able to relocate/fix-up images,
  join sections, report imports/exports.

  Then I want to write a utility which will convert
  our kernel compiled as PE-Image into a MultiBoot plain image with
  the neccesary header, so that we shall not need ELF-tools and Linux
  target any more...

  In basic units (my genutils) I'll implement abstract classes
  OBaseObject (actually only with a virtual destructor) and OGenStream
  to map any IO-related stuff to memory/buffer/driver data/file etc.

  I also selected a modificated code style, i.e. the way to name variables and
  functions, which I practise in my C++ programmes,
  see:

===codestyle.txt===
CODE STYLE SAMPLE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

typename
        GlobalFunctionName()

gGlobalVariableName

mMemberName

methodName

local_function_name (which is not declared in Interface)

local_variable_name

g_local_variable_name (not declared in Interface, but global for the implementation part)

argument_variable_name



TTypeName
CClassName
OObjectName

PPointerTypeName

CONSTANT_NAME
DEFINE_NAME

pPointerVariable
p_pointer_variable

rVariableReference
r_argument_reference
r_local_reference


MLCC_TTypeName
MLCC_Function

while (condition)
if (condition)

enum TMyEnum
{
  tmeEnumOption, tmeEnumOption2
}


Global Functions names:
ObjectAction
e.g. CursorDraw, FileOpen, FileClose...


===EOF codestyle.txt===

 We've got a rather rainy and cool summer in Belarus :( So I have to spend almost
 every day at home... :(

-- 
Best regards,
 Juras                          mailto:yb...@tu...