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On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:55:55PM +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> >>Moment .. are you want to say something like "keep commont coding style
> >>can't be maintained by tool" ?
> >>Even if indent watches on to small coding style emenets still I don't see
> >>why using this tool isn't one of the current ement of release procedure
> >>(?).
> >
> >indent isn't perfect, _especially_ where C99 comes into the picture.
>
> Again: is in this case "isn't perfect" mean "it does not make all what we
> want" ? If yes still I don't see why not use indent + some other tool or
> if you will show real example where it does something badady (like now
> for checking code syntax is used compiler and some other tools like
> sparse).
>
> >And running indent across the tree pre-release would (a) create a ton of
> >noise before each release, and (b) undo perfectly valid, readable
> >formatting.
>
> Committing all this "noise" will plug all this thing and allow reve most
> of content Documentation/CodingStyle document.
> Is it not wort stop all questions/discuss/flames on this subject ?
Yes, it's better to stop this thread. Because you haven't done your
homework and advocating procedure which will create massive spurious changes
every time it's applied.
If you have math background:
Lindent \cdot Lindent \neq Lindent
pretty often. If you don't, see below.
> Again: using indent mainly will mean only one time massive changes.
True, 180M(!) of them.
> After
> this ident can be runed for example by Linus just before make release
> and/or partial release.
~4M per run.
> >scripts/Lindent exists and gets used, but it is not perfect.
Correction: GNU indent exists and gets used, but it is not perfect.
Last time I checked BSD indent don't have some option Lindent use.
forgot which.
> Again: anywhere are listed/was posted list of "not perfect" examples ?
OOhhhh, please do
find . -type f -name '*.[ch]' | xargs ./scripts/Lindent
on any large C codebase.
> And/or: what does it mean in this case "not perfect" ?
> Show this for
> allow start work on fix indent by other people (if all cases will be resul
> of some bugs in this tool).
Start fixing indent(1) if you're serious about all this. There are
_plenty_ of C code flying around.
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