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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:05:37 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au
Subject:   indent(1) and style(9) (was: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h)
Message-ID:  <19990128180537.B8473@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901280316.OAA26849@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:16:25PM %2B1100
References:  <199901280316.OAA26849@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 14:16:25 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> It would be nice if style(9) documented the options to give indent(1)
>> to match the `approved' layout convections.  (This would reduce the
>> effort involved in importing large chunks of code).
>
> This is impossible, since indent(1) is buggy and out of date with both
> KNF and C.

Well, you can do a certain amount.  In fact, I use GNU indent and
achieve a reasonable approximation.  It would be nice to import it,
but it doesn't comply with style(9) :-)

Greg
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