So I’m free to submit a patch to delete these? :)
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:12 AM Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the old days, with limited memory, editors would only read a file up to
> the formfeed. The programmer would edit the text up to the formfeed and
> then read in the next block (up to the next formfeed). This way the whole
> file need not be in memory at once. Compilers ignore it. Obviously they
> can be eliminated now.
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> Blake McBride
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 11:08 AM Pete Dietl <petedi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why are there so many form feeds in the source?
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>> Running this from the root of the Make repo:
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>> cd src && grep -c $'\f' *.[ch] | grep -v ':0$' | sort -t : -k 2 -n -r |
>> awk -F : 'BEGIN {printf "%-15s Number of form feeds\n", "File"; print
>> "------------------------------------" } {printf "%-15s %2d\n", $1, $2}'
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>> Results in:
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>> File Number of form feeds
>> ------------------------------------
>> variable.c 17
>> read.c 15
>> misc.c 12
>> job.c 11
>> function.c 10
>> dir.c 10
>> remake.c 9
>> main.c 8
>> file.c 8
>> expand.c 6
>> commands.c 6
>> vpath.c 5
>> rule.c 5
>> output.c 5
>> getopt.c 4
>> arscan.c 4
>> remote-stub.c 3
>> remote-cstms.c 3
>> ar.c 3
>> implicit.c 2
>> getopt1.c 2
>> version.c 1
>> makeint.h 1
>> hash.h 1
>> default.c 1
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