RE: GNU style checker for GDB

Metzger, Markus T via Gdb
2021-03-09T06:08:38Z

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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