From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24089 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2005 06:23:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24075 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2005 06:23:01 -0000 Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:23:01 +0000 Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (root@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl [192.168.0.2]) by sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j716MMAS032470; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:22:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j716MMOS029358; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:22:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j716MDiG002521; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:22:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:23:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200508010622.j716MDiG002521@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: woodzltc@cn.ibm.com CC: drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: (message from Wu Zhou on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:21:37 +0800 (CST)) Subject: Re: [RFA] New testcase to evaluate Fortran substring expression References: <20050703185733.GI13811@nevyn.them.org> <20050714234612.GA21620@nevyn.them.org> <20050801021253.GH30901@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:21:37 +0800 (CST) From: Wu Zhou Sorry, I am not very sure what is the maximum limit of a line in the sources and comments. Maybe it is 72? or 80, or any other number? Maybe I can choose to use the smaller one? We're not too strict about it. The default value for "fill-column" in emacs is 70, so I'd say it's more 72 than 80, especially for comments. But for code it's ok to have slightly longer lines, if it improves the readability of your code, as long as things stay under 80. Please don't put anything in column 80 (or 79 if you live in a non-Fortran world ;-), because some terminals wrap as soon as you put something in the last column. By the way, there is a good reason for following this practice, even if many people are using environments that can display more than 80 characters on a line. There has been quite a bit of research on optimal line length by psychologists. Making lines to long makes things difficult to read; people start skipping lines. Look at some well typeset books and count the number of characters on it. You'll end up with somthing 70-ish for most of them Mark