From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4448 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2005 22:24:12 -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 4284 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Aug 2005 22:24:03 -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 22:24:03 +0000 Received: from alligator.red-bean.com.redhat.com (vpn26-14.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.26.14]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7UMNxJW026887; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:24:00 -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> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:30:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20050830214629.GA16018@nevyn.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:46:29 -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/msg00257.txt.bz2 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.