From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7332 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2011 18:45:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 7312 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2011 18:45:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from snape.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (HELO smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) (129.70.160.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:45:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084AAC65; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:45:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (malfoy.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id aHEH3m2LrfY9; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:45:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.161.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7162CC64; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:45:31 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ro@localhost) by manam.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4/Submit) id p28IjUOS008315; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:45:30 +0100 (MET) From: Rainer Orth To: Jim Meyering Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Ian Lance Taylor Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: avoid useless if-before-free tests References: <87zkp9zmq0.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hc9r8w6.fsf_-_@rho.meyering.net> <87tyfdpmss.fsf@rho.meyering.net> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87tyfdpmss.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:03:15 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-q1/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 Jim Meyering writes: >> the change at hand. And please don't change the alignment of entries >> with multiple email addresses. > > Changing 8-spaces to a TAB does not affect alignment when you're > looking at the ChangeLog file itself with standard tab setting. > > Perhaps you looked at a hunk like the following and mistook it > for one that introduces an alignment change? > > 2011-11-04 Eric Botcazou > - Jakub Jelinek > + Jakub Jelinek > > It does not. I'm pretty sure it does: before, you have 12 SPC, afterwards you have TAB + 3 SPC, which is equivalent to 11 SPC in my book. I honestly don't see the point of this whitespace change unless done across all ChangeLogs, not just a few that you happen to touch. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University