On 12/5/14 10:04 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 12/05/2014 07:31 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
This is a perfect example! The code (with tabs as >--- and leading
spaces as .) is:
>-------if (!list_empty(pending))
>------->-------ret = list_first_entry(pending, struct async_entry,
>------->------->------->-------.......domain_list)->cookie;
Now, display it in your editor with tabs set to four spaces:
>---if (!list_empty(pending))
>--->---ret = list_first_entry(pending, struct async_entry,
>--->--->--->---.......domain_list)->cookie;
However, a conscientious programmer knows that tabs could be arbitrarily
sized, so he would never do that.
The Linux kernel style guide makes clear: tabs are not arbitrarily
sized. In the Linux kernel, they are eight spaces.
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