Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13.03.2007 16:03:57:

> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
>  > Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>  > 
>  > > 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.
>  > 
>  > But please do not turn tabs into spaces in the gcc source code.
>  > 
>  > I think removing trailing whitespace would be OK,
> 
> Please don't check it in, though!  That would be really bad.  It would
> do horrible things to diffs, particularly between branches.
> 
> Andrew.
> 

But I was questioned to do this stuff, for those files changed by a patch 
of mine. So I tought, if I should do, than do it for the complete gcc (not 
root) folder. How to process ?

Kai

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