Re: fix "too much information" bug w/ "info vector" on PowerPC

Stan Shebs
2005-08-30T22:44:33Z

Jim Blandy wrote:

>Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
>>On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:42:31PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
>>
>>>- I'm not sure why the indentation in your patch is weird, but in any
>>> case, there seems to be a preference for using spaces in new code,
>>> not tabs.
>>>
>>Er, really? GNU convention is tabs, as far as I know.
>>
>
>I don't see anything in the coding standards, but maybe I've missed
>something.
>
>Avoiding tab characters makes patches read normally and avoids
>problems with different tab sizes. And all the popular editors can be
>configured to make the 'tab' command use either. Most of the other
>Free software projects I know of have a convention of using spaces.
>
I think we're still on the tab standard, despite its flaws. I think
eCos folks decided to go the spaces way, and got hassled by
everybody else at Cygnus for it. :-)

Stan