Interpreted debugging with gcj/gij

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Thu May 26 19:22:00 GMT 2005


>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> writes:

Keith> Classpath appears to depart from GNU in one major aspect: putting spaces
Keith> between function names, e.g., "myfunction()" instead of the (more
Keith> standard) "myfunction ()". Call me old-fashioned. Working on gdb for a
Keith> long time has really hammered that space into my brain.

Yeah, I find that difficult too.

Keith> None of it's really a big deal, IMO. I've looked at a lot of the gcj
Keith> code, and there appears to be significant departures from either of
Keith> these standards all over the place.

Yeah.  There is a lot of confusion about the space, but also some
parts of the code from other sources were never reformatted; also
even some new code in Classpath is being formatted incorrectly.
Hopefully we'll be fixing this for the java code with an
eclipse-based formatter.

Tom



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