Re: [RFC] Increase libstdc++ line length to 100(?) columns

[Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw4rd@verizon.net>]

On 11/26/20 6:50 PM, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc wrote:
> I've touched on the subject a few times, e.g.
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2019-December/230993.html
> and https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2019-December/231013.html
>
> Libstdc++ code is indented by 2 columns for the enclosing namespace,
> usually another two for being in a template, and is full of __
> prefixes for reserved names. On top of that, modern C++ declarations
> are *noisy* (template head, requires-clause, noexcept-specifier, often
> 'constexpr' or 'inline' and 'explicit', and maybe some attributes.
>
> All that gets hard to fit in 80 columns without compromising
> readability with line breaks in unnatural places.
>
> Does anybody object to raising the line length for libstdc++ code
> (not the rest of GCC) to 100 columns?
>
> Please read my replies in the thread linked above before telling me
> that the code should be split up into smaller functions to avoid deep
> nesting. The function I pointed to cannot easily be split up without
> making the code slower to compile and potentially slower to run:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/stl_algobase.h;h=a2fd306e6d0cca579b510148ba1a7089e2b2f3a2;hb=HEAD#l1499 
>
>
+1