From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29462 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2005 18:47:26 -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 29438 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2005 18:47:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Mar 2005 18:47:20 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2OIlJ1R001402 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.17) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:47:19 -0800 Received: from [17.112.105.206] ([17.112.105.206]) by relay2.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2OIlHe3013373; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:47:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <42430B35.5010604@apple.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:47:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [mi] organize possible exec async mi oc command reasons References: <20050324154602.GA10558@white> <20050324160653.GB29185@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20050324160653.GB29185@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00301.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >I sometimes consider myself the pedantic guardian of GDB's source code >formatting :-) > > Way back when, I thought the whole formatting thing was too anal, and didn't enforce strictly; but after several years of this, GDB got to be looking rather random, with nothing ever quite where one expected to find it, and we had to do a mega-reformat (CVS still credits me with all the code. :-) ). It's a little bit like picking up litter on the streets; one cigarette butt is trivial, but without any effort to keep things clean, pretty soon you're wading through trash. Stan