From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
To: tej@melbpc.org.au
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Coding convention: use of `!x' vs. `! x'
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000922214424U.mitchell@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39CBDE30.2B57A922@melbpc.org.au>
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au> writes:
Tim> Before adding new standards I think it would be better to
Tim> have the existing standards followed more closely eg comments
Tim> and meaningful variable names. At present these are the major
Tim> hurdles in front of anyone wanting to help with GCC. In
Tim> particular the configure/make files are a major 'swamp of no
Tim> return'.
I don't think it's either/or. I would love to see the Makefiles
improved. I actually looked at this stuff a few months back, and
couldn't quite do what I wanted to do -- which was to move a lot more
stuff to configure time, instead of Makefile evaluation time.
Tim> Maybe it is deliberable to stop people who don't know what
Tim> they are doing from getting involved.
It's not. It is unfortunate, though, that things got to the state
they're in.
Tim> Are there any programs to test for FSF standards compliance,
Tim> realizing that full checking is not possible, you could check
Tim> quite a lot.
I don't know of any such programs.
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com
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2000-09-22 17:00 ` Tim Josling
2000-09-22 18:21 ` Stan Shebs
2000-09-22 21:44 ` Mark Mitchell [this message]
2000-09-25 2:04 ` Akim Demaille
2000-09-25 7:29 ` Mark Mitchell
2000-09-25 11:32 ` Phil Edwards
2000-09-26 1:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2000-09-26 4:36 Jamie Lokier
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2000-09-22 9:32 Richard Kenner
2000-09-22 9:50 ` David Edelsohn
2000-09-22 10:22 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2000-09-22 10:22 ` Tim Hollebeek
2000-09-30 9:52 ` Mark Mitchell
2000-09-22 0:29 Mark Mitchell
2000-09-24 22:57 ` Geoff Keating
2000-09-24 23:43 ` Mark Mitchell
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