From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15062 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2014 02:34:27 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 15052 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jan 2014 02:34:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 02:34:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F93111631F; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:34:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IUwSfgQRhUlc; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:34:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF2611631C; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:34:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E05BBE0B70; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:34:17 +0400 (RET) Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 02:34:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Doug Evans Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches Subject: Re: [RFC] Change coding style rule: 80 column "hard limit" for ChangeLogs Message-ID: <20140109023417.GP3802@adacore.com> References: <83bnzsw6ro.fsf@gnu.org> <20140105040005.GA3802@adacore.com> <20140108114544.GN3802@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 > So how about a 74 soft limit and 80 hard limit for everything (modulo > things like .exp files where we try to keep things under 80 but some > lines are just long and best left as is). > > soft = "stay within the limit unless you have a reasonable reason to > exceed, and we're not nitpicky on what reasonable is" > > hard = "do not exceed unless you just cannot do otherwise, and while > there are exceptions, we are quite nitpicky on this one" > > Even that wording doesn't preclude different interpretations. I'm > happy to tweak it. The high order bits for me are the same numbers > for everything, and not being nitpicky on adherence to the soft limit. I all works for me. > If there are no objections, I will tweak your coding style cheat sheet > wiki (just trying to save you the trouble, it's your page, feel free > to edit as desired), and update other docs (the CodingStandards wiki > doesn't exist, I'll create it and add something to get it going). I don't consider it my property so feel free to edit and improve as you see fit. The purpose is to have something as useful as possible to others, and also as a way to keep track of past discussions that lead to the various rules (hence HTML instead of texi). I initially created it and put my name next to it to make it extra clear that it's unofficial and WIP. Now that gdbint has been moved to the wiki, I should probably think of merging this with the rest of gdbinit at some point. Thanks! -- Joel