Re: GNU style checker for GDB

Dave Marples
2021-03-08T23:21:55Z

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