On 13 March 2007 14:02, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Kai Tietz writes:
>
> > I want to remove some trailing whitespaces from gcc source as coding
> style > demands. Also I wrote, while doing a small tool for that, a
> feature to > replace horiz. tabs by spaces. But the question is by which
> width should > be used ?
>
> 8.
>
> Andrew.
Can you explain that value? It's just that 1) I see vast acres and acres of
code where the tabstop size is two spaces 2) the coding standard doesn't seem
to /demand/ a specific tab size and 3) if we use 8-space TABs with the kind of
depths of nesting the gcc code often contains we're going to exceed the
80-column line length limit just on the leading indentation alone pretty
often....
cheers,
DaveK
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