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Re: [patch] config.gcc untabification
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, drow at mvista dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:00:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch] config.gcc untabification
>> * config.gcc: Reindent.
>
>Some of us prefer leading tabs. And it seems to be fairly consistent
>about it. What does this buy you? Except causing me another dozen
>merge conflicts?
Readability. Avoiding going off the 80-column boundary a lot more
often.
Without fiddling with tabstop settings in every viewer and editor I use.
And it's only somewhat consistent. My followup patch makes
the formatting entirely consistent. (Although it seems to be lost in
the mail. --hiss--)
Feel free to propose an alternative which standardizes everything with
lots of tabs. I'll oppose it, but it would be better than the current
state.
There's a moderate amount of stuff which I think can be cleaned up or
simplified in config.gcc. But I couldn't even stand to *look* at it as
a whole before style cleanup.
--Nathanael