Re: D language support

Stan Shebs
2010-04-26T23:51:56Z

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Leandro" == Leandro Lucarella <llucax@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>
> Leandro> Is the indent program invoked with -gnu option enough to fix the style
> Leandro> nits or GDB has its own rules? It might save some time to everybody =)
>
> Weirdly, indent -gnu doesn't really use the GNU style.
> It is a sort of approximation.
>
> We have a gdb_indent.sh in the tree, and I think it was used at one
> point, but in the end I think it was abandoned. I think sometimes it
> did the wrong thing.
>
To some extent, one just has to decide that the output of the script is
"correct", even if it looks wrong here and there. But I think part of
the pain comes from having *two* programs - emacs and indent - that can
have differing conclusions, and being unsure as to which should take
precedence.

Somebody should give gdb_indent.sh a try, see how it does on today's
sources. We have more people participating in maintenance these days,
seems like we could run it once a week or so, and it has the bonus of
cleaning up after those rouge global maintainers who check in massive
hacks willy-nilly. :-)

Stan