From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16420 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2005 23:36:23 -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 16394 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2005 23:36:18 -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 23:36:18 +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 j7UNaE6Z016146; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:36:15 -0400 To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com Cc: 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> <20050830222955.GA17207@nevyn.them.org> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:50:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20050830222955.GA17207@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:29:55 -0400") 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/msg00261.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:22:51PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> Avoiding tab characters makes patches read normally and avoids >> problems with different tab sizes. And all the popular editors can be >> configured to make the 'tab' command use either. Most of the other >> Free software projects I know of have a convention of using spaces. > > I know all these things - but they aren't relevant to GDB. GDB has > about eight times more code using tabs than spaces (I just checked). > Let's not dribble in the opposite direction without a deliberate > decision, please. Sorry for the misdirection, Paul. Please tab away.