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<concept id="GUID-27AAD3D5-AEC0-5A33-B14A-2E8B8D21CDAA" xml:lang="en"><title>How

to use the trailing-C naming convention</title><shortdesc>This document describes how functions named with a trailing C are

handled on the stack.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>The case of allocating an object and pushing it to the cleanup stack is

sufficiently common that allocation functions are often coded to do both in

a single operation. For example, there is a <codeph>User::AllocLC()</codeph> whose

semantics are to call <codeph>User::Alloc()</codeph> to allocate the memory,

leave if the allocation failed, and push to the cleanup stack if it succeeded.</p>

<p>The trailing <codeph>C</codeph> indicates that the item is pushed to the

cleanup stack if successfully allocated: the resulting function can be referred

to as a <keyword>C function</keyword>: in the great majority of cases, C functions

are also <keyword>L functions</keyword>. Any function which calls <codeph>User::AllocLC()</codeph> to

allocate a buffer should also use this naming convention. </p>

<p>The function that calls a -<codeph>C</codeph> function must pop (and destroy,

if the -<codeph>C</codeph> function allocated an object) the object from the

stack when its use is complete.</p>