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Re: Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source

From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
To: Kai Tietz <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:14:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source
References: <OFB83689A3.56B1B43E-ONC125729D.004BD95D-C125729D.004C8D91@onevision.de> <17910.44750.70400.150069@zebedee.pink> <0a7c01c76580$a90d9f50$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

>>>>> Kai Tietz writes:

> Also I wrote, while doing a small tool for that, a
> feature to replace horiz. tabs by spaces. But the question is by which
> width should be used ?

	Tabs always are equivalent to 8 spaces.

	But please DO NOT replace tabs in the GCC sources with spaces.
Eight spaces should be tabs.

Thanks, David

References:
- Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source
  - From: Kai Tietz
- Re: Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source
  - From: Andrew Haley
- RE: Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source
  - From: Dave Korn

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