Re: D language support

[Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>]

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