GCC Bugzilla: break long lines please?

[Andrew Haley]

Steven Bosscher writes:
 > Op vr 11-04-2003, om 20:55 schreef Andrew Haley:
 > > Steven Bosscher writes:
 > >  > Can you make Bugzilla break long lines in the original
 > >  > bug report?  The audit trail looks OK, but the original
 > >  > reports do not.
 > > 
 > > Surely this would break compiler command lines?
 > 
 > Maybe so, but it would also break the 12 mile long lines of commentary
 > that some people manage to produce.  It's easier to be able to read the
 > report and just type over the command line than to have to read and
 > scroll and back and read and scroll and...

Perhaps, but there's nothing more annoying than trying to read a 
post
that goes like this and then this and so on.  And we really do need 
to
see whare a command line goes.

Besides, if you do have overlong lines it's trivial to wrap them.
OTOH, it can be somewhere between very hard and impossible to
accurately reconstruct a makefile that's been broken in a few places.

 > Was it ever a problem for you that GNATS broke up long lines?

I have used tools that broke compiler command lines and it was
intensely annoying.  I can't remember if I was ever bitten by this
with GNATS, to be honest.

Andrew.