Re: Patch installed to concatentate specifiers using HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_*

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:01:27PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> 
> > This patch concatentates format specifiers in files from the config/
> > directory which had been split in deference to K&R C (which we no
> > longer support.)  This should generate marginally smaller code since
> > we're making several fewer function calls in each case.
> 
> Can we establish (and document in codingconventions.html) a convention for 
> whether there should be a space between the string constants and the macro 
> name (that is, whether we use
> 
>   "foo"HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_DEC"bar"
> or
>   "foo" HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_DEC "bar"

The latter is, IMNSHO, far easier to read, and points up an obvious place
for line breaks as well.

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