From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15963 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2005 22:44:33 -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 15951 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2005 22:44:25 -0000 Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:44:25 +0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (a17-128-100-204.apple.com [17.128.100.204]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7UMiNZr027504 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.17) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:44:22 -0700 Received: from [17.219.206.128] ([17.219.206.128]) by relay2.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7UMiLFA009542; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4314E14A.4040103@apple.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:46:00 -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: Jim Blandy CC: pgilliam@us.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: fix "too much information" bug w/ "info vector" on PowerPC References: <200508301459.57189.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> <20050830214629.GA16018@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00259.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy wrote: >Daniel Jacobowitz 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