Re: automated coding style tool

Tom Tromey
2025-01-14T17:11:55Z

>>>>> Aktemur, Tankut Baris via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

> Regarding the automated coding style tool: is there any active attempt
> to pursue this goal?

Every year or two I take another look at clang-format.
The discussion is here:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30098

> Tom mentioned his t/clang-format branch in that email thread. I checked
> the branch. The clang-format config file has
> # BasedOnStyle: GNU
> Is the GDB coding style so off from the built-in GNU style
> that it cannot be reused?

I don't recall why I commented this out. Anyway clang-format doesn't
come very close to GNU style. I'd be ok with ignoring most of the
little differences (i.e., I don't care about goto label placement), but
the bin packing output is just super ugly some of the time.

Tom