From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21814 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2005 23:50:33 -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 21629 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2005 23:50:09 -0000 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com (HELO devserv.devel.redhat.com) (66.187.233.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:50:09 +0000 Received: from alligator.red-bean.com.redhat.com (vpn26-10.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.26.10]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7UNo5ll019677; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:50:06 -0400 To: Mark Kettenis 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> <200508302246.j7UMkfwX015591@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Jim Blandy Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200508302246.j7UMkfwX015591@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (Mark Kettenis's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:46:41 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis writes: >> From: Jim Blandy >> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:22:51 -0700 >> >> 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. > > Well, emacs generates tabs by default. Ah, this is the "Emacs *is* the GNU Coding Standard" school of thought --- to which I do occasionally subscribe. But I've got indent-tabs-mode set to nil, after being asked to do so several times (by other projects). Once all the bugs in GDB's actual behavior are fixed, I'll raise the tab/space question again. [goes back under rock]