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

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-08-30T22:30:03Z

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:22:51PM -0700, 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 know all these things - but they aren't relevant to GDB. GDB has
about eight times more code using tabs than spaces (I just checked).
Let's not dribble in the opposite direction without a deliberate
decision, please.

IIRC GCC and binutils also use a tab convention.

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