Re: GNU style checker for GDB

Zied Guermazi
2021-03-10T10:33:07Z

hi

thanks Markus, the script was helpful spotting style mismatch.

can this script be referred from
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20Coding-Standards ?

Kind Regards

Zied Guermazi

On 09.03.21 07:08, Metzger, Markus T wrote:
> There's gcc.git/contrib/check_GNU_style.sh.
>
> Regards,
> Markus.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gdb <gdb-bounces@sourceware.org> On Behalf Of Dave Marples
>> Sent: Dienstag, 9. März 2021 00:22
>> To: gdb@sourceware.org
>> Subject: Re: GNU style checker for GDB
>>
>>
>> On 08/03/2021 22:39, David Blaikie via Gdb wrote:
>>> I think if you can point to a widely used style (the gdb (& binutils more
>>> generally?) codebase) there's probably going to be a fair bit of
>>> sympathy/understanding there.
>> It seems to me that this is a problem screaming out for Machine
>> Learning. I see so many projects that don't have a formal style guide
>> but have a "please format your code like the rest of the code is already
>> formatted 'cos we like that" policy. Nothing wrong with that policy at
>> all, except that it's obviously incredibly difficult to automate.
>>
>> It would make a really nice final year undergrad project for someone to
>> train up an AI on the style of an existing codebase, then use the
>> developed knowledge to edit new code into that same format.
>>
>> ...anyone got any suitably smart final year students that would bite on
>> a project like that? I can think of plenty of projects that could make
>> use of it!
>>
>> DAVE
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