From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup gcse.c:canon_modify_mem_list
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302008146.25036.15.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110405123041.GG23480@codesourcery.com>
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 05:30 -0700, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:22:39PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 04:44 -0700, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> > > > nit; You're missing some whitespace here (after the VEC).
> > >
> > > This doesn't seem to be a hard-and-fast policy; all of the VEC code I
> > > remember writing or looking at recently has no spaces, and I checked the
> > > patch in on that basis. However, running grep indicates that we have a
> > > profusion of styles...
> >
> > I think the style guide is quite clear on this: there should be a space
> > there as Jeff says. The fact that some code has crept in with other
> > styles doesn't make them right, or give justification for ignoring the
> > style guide.
>
> Would you like a patch for the hundreds of instances without spaces?
>
> Certainly vec.h never uses spaces; I thought this was simply The Way
> Things Were.
>
> -Nathan
>
IMO, rototils are generally pointless. If you are fixing code nearby
then yes, fix the formatting issues. Otherwise, just don't exacerbate
the problem, or we'll reach the point where a rototil really does become
necessary.
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-05 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-04 1:45 Nathan Froyd
2011-04-04 18:01 ` Jeff Law
2011-04-05 11:44 ` Nathan Froyd
2011-04-05 12:22 ` Richard Earnshaw
2011-04-05 12:30 ` Nathan Froyd
2011-04-05 12:55 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2011-04-05 13:08 ` Jeff Law
2011-04-05 14:40 ` Richard Earnshaw
2011-04-05 18:10 ` Mike Stump
2011-04-05 19:18 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-04-05 19:51 ` Nathan Froyd
2011-04-05 16:19 ` Jeff Law
2011-04-04 15:42 Steven Bosscher
2011-04-04 15:50 ` Nathan Froyd
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