From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Edwards To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/3653: -fmessage-length=72 with g++ makes no sense Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:56:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010712195600.21819.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00342.html List-Id: The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/3653; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Phil Edwards To: Gabriel Dos Reis Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/3653: -fmessage-length=72 with g++ makes no sense Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:54:57 -0400 > enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de writes: > | 3. The value of 72 is IMHO obsoleted. Are there still existing C++ > | programmers which are writing code on an 80-column console? I think most ones are using xterms or framebuffer-screens with 100 or more columns. Many of us with xterms and framebuffer-screens still use 80 columns. (Hint: pieces of paper cannot be stretched.) -- Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. - anonymous Egyptian scribe, c.1700 BC