Re: [RFA 10/42] Move some code from buildsym to stabsread

Tom Tromey
2018-07-08T16:59:39Z

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> writes:

Simon> The newline in the middle is actually a form feed character, as recommended in the
Simon> GNU coding standards [1]:

Hah, it didn't even occur to me that these wouldn't have shown up, but
that's probably what happened.

Simon> I'd be really curious to know if anybody cares about them today. I know in some
Simon> editors you can jump from on to the other. In my editor, they just appear as the
Simon> little "special character" box with the ascii/unicode in it.

I use them as indicators of "this group of functions belongs together",
but I don't actually use the page navigation functions in Emacs. Also
there's a historical / habitual component to adding them; it's long been
part of the GNU style.

Maybe having more and smaller files would be a better approach to what I
use them for. Though of course that's not without its costs.

Tom