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Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages
- From: Mikhail Maltsev <maltsevm at gmail dot com>
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, carlos at redhat dot com, Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:57:29 +0300
- Subject: Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages
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On 04/22/2016 07:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html
> attachment in the first attempt).
>
> We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my attention
> that some people don't even make the effort to read the GNU coding standards
> before trying to contribute code. TL;DR seems to be the excuse, and while I find
> that attitude inappropriate, we could probably improve the situation by spelling
> out the most basic rules in an abridged document on our webpages. Below is a
> draft I came up with. Thoughts?
>
Probably contrib/clang-format and https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FormattingCodeForGCC
are also worth mentioning.
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Regards,
Mikhail Maltsev