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Subject: Re: [patch] more comment cleanups
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 	"mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, 	"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> So what do others think about source lines over 70 columns?
>
> Enforcing a maximum length of 70 characters seems awfully low to me.
> It's fine if someone decides to use 70 characters for his comments,
> of even his code, but I think that 76 or 78 would give better results.
> I even allow myself to go up to 80 when splitting a line makes it
> particularly ugly and hard to read...
>

ChangeLog should be limited to 74 columns:

[hjl@gnu-6 gdb]$ tail gdb/ChangeLog

For older changes see ChangeLog-2009.


Local Variables:
mode: change-log
left-margin: 8
fill-column: 74
version-control: never
coding: utf-8
End:
[hjl@gnu-6 gdb]$


-- 
H.J.