On 3/13/07, Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
A tab is 8 spaces. Always.
Richard.
