From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@science.uva.nl>
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa/i387] Eliminate HOST_*_FORMAT from i387-tdep.c
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 08:55:00 -0000
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Mark Kettenis <kettenis@science.uva.nl> writes:
> Oh, and I believe the GNU coding standards demand two spaces after a
> full stop, even at the end of a comment.

I didn't know that was part of the standard, but I can give the
rationale:

The Emacs forward- and backward-sentence commands (M-e and M-a) expect
to see two spaces after a full stop, to help them distinguish a period
after an abbreviation from a period marking the end of a sentence.
It's really handy to have those commands work on comments.