Herewith, if anyone is interested, is what I expect is the final version 
of this patch, incorporating Joel's comments.  Absent any objections, I 
expect I'll commit it Monday (just to give people time to object :-) ).

[Joel, thanks for the link to the GDBTestcaseCookbook--extracting 
coherence from lots of oral tradition and examples dating from the mists 
of the distant past wasn't working well.]

On 02/11/10 23:11, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> If you disagree strongly, then we could just close the PR and drop it, I
>> suppose.  I am not very intent on this, I just thought it would be a
>> nice, if minor, enhancement.  I didn't see a real downside.
>>      
>
> Not at all, I cannot say I like the idea, but if it's useful to others,
> this is all that really matters. Let's go ahead, then.
>
> Regarding GNU indent - I know. But I try to keep formatting the code
> the way GNU indent would do it in sane situations, as it helps keeping
> some uniformity to our code.  There are some rules I don't like (ahem,
> ask me about spaces and tabs), but I think that uniformity is more
> important...
>
> I'm happy I contributed just a little bit towards this patch - I really
> felt bad reacting to it so so late in the game.
>
>