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

[Andrew Haley]

Ian Lance Taylor writes:
 > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Kai Tietz writes:
 > > 
 > >  > I want to remove some trailing whitespaces from gcc source as coding style 
 > >  > demands. 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 ?
 > > 
 > > 8.
 > 
 > But please do not turn tabs into spaces in the gcc source code.
 > 
 > I think removing trailing whitespace would be OK,

Please don't check it in, though!  That would be really bad.  It would
do horrible things to diffs, particularly between branches.

Andrew.