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RE: [patch] Fix comment formatting in m68hc11/*.
- To: "'Joseph S. Myers'" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: RE: [patch] Fix comment formatting in m68hc11/*.
- From: Kazu Hirata <kazu at hxi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:07:45 -0500
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Hi Joseph and Neil,
> Where code and comments fail to follow the GNU Coding Standards, we
> should fix them. Once things are fixed we should try to inform
> anyone posting a badly formatted patch about its problems, and
> hopefully make more frequent fixes for those problems that still
> creep in. I think separate small formatting patches are better than
> doing a single massive patch to fix every formatting problem
> throughout GCC. (I think GDB did something like the latter, using
> GNU indent on all source files, but I wouldn't really trust indent
> to fix formatting properly.)
I am more inclined to your idea. I believe these fixes are a
converging thing; nobody should reverse them in theory. Once settled
down, we might still see occasional creep-in, but that should be
minimal.
Kazu Hirata