Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:57:05 +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: Re: indent(1) and style(9) (was: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h) Message-ID: <19990128185705.G8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901280819.TAA23954@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:19:12PM %2B1100 References: <199901280819.TAA23954@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 19:19:12 +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 This is impossible, since indent(1) is buggy and out of date with both 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. > > I see no evidence of this. vinum sources don't seem to have a single > line in KNF, except accidentally. They have an indentation of 4 > instead of 8, lots of per-statement comments, lots of lines longer > than 80 characters, lots of block comments without `/*' and `*/' on > a line by themself, ... Well, I call that an approximation. Sorry I have so many comments. I'll fix the individual line /* and */; it wasn't evident from style(9) that this was a requirement. >> It would be nice to import it, >> but it doesn't comply with style(9) :-) > > style(9) only applies to non-contrib'ed sources. e.g., vinum :-). Don't spoil a good story by sticking too closely to the facts. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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