Dave Korn writes: > 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. > > > 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....
That's not the question I answered, which was "when I come across a leading tab character in GNU souce code, how many spaces does that tab represent?" It says nothing about correct GNU indentation, which is two spaces. Andrew.
