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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:10:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: list of GNU indent versions in gdb_indent.sh
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> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:01:15 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> said:
> 
> 
>> Can you please find out exactly what was changed?
> 
> 
> The NEWS/ChangeLog files were uninformative, so I just copied all of
> gdb/*.{h,c} to test directories and ran gdb_indent on them with the
> three versions of indent.  Here's the scoop, as I see it:
> 
> 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 are pretty much the same: the main difference is that
> 2.2.6 is bad at handling string constants with embedded newlines.
> (Where by "bad" I mean "reformats them, so the meaning of your code
> changes".)
> 
> The main difference between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 seems to be that 2.2.8
> tries to handle comments like
> 
> /* 
>  * Beginning of a very long sentence that continues to the next line,
>  * which starts with an asterisk as well.
>  */

Ah, ok.  Thats a relief.  That style of comment isn't GNU approved so I 
guess we can live with that change :-)

I'll tweak the check once 5.3 is out.

Andrew