From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 00:27:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA07468 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07461 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:27:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA23962; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:57:05 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id SAA08842; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:57:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:57:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans 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> References: <199901280819.TAA23954@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901280819.TAA23954@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:19:12PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 This is impossible, since indent(1) is buggy and out of date with both 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