From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19486 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2010 16:38:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 19355 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Nov 2010 16:38:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:38:52 +0000 Received: from glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oA8Gclvh018364; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:38:47 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id oA8GciFV005540; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:38:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:38:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201011081638.oA8GciFV005540@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: brobecker@adacore.com CC: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org, dje@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tromey@redhat.com, pedro@codesourcery.com In-reply-to: <20101108161121.GA2933@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:11:21 -0800) Subject: Re: [doc RFA] Switch to GCC coding style [Re: [patch] initial OpenCL C language support] References: <201010221920.30046.ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20101026195747.GE2847@adacore.com> <20101027190417.GA19067@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <201010272020.51386.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20101102165134.GA19296@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20101102172246.GA22137@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <8339rj5y7z.fsf@gnu.org> <20101108124942.GA29408@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20101108161121.GA2933@adacore.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:11:21 -0800 > From: Joel Brobecker > > > Yes, it would be better. But I am not going to spend the time on it myself. > > As a first step, I don't mind duplicating the GCC Conventions Wiki page > onto ours, and then removing all the GCC-specific parts. I just want > to make sure that we're all happy to go that way. > > > > To say nothing of the fact that they will now have to read two documents > > > instead of 1. > > > > 3 instead of 2 (besides GNU Coding Standards and gdbint.texinfo Coding > > Standards proposing also GCC Coding Conventions). > > I agree that 1 document would be better, even if we end up duplicating > some information in GCS. It's just simpler for everyone. Not sure about that. Quite a few people are already familliar with the GNU Coding standards. Having a document that describes just the additional bits means there is less material to read through, and less likely for people to miss the GDB-specific bits.