Re: [PATCH] gdbserver: Add .dir-locals.el file

[Andrew Burgess <andrew dot burgess at embecosm dot com>]

* Aktemur, Tankut Baris <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com> [2020-03-02 10:19:28 +0000]:

> On Monday, March 2, 2020 10:53 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> > Add a .dir-locals.el file into the gdbserver directory so that we get
> > the GNU style when editing these files in Emacs.
> > 
> > I copied this file over from the gdb/ directory and the only change I
> > made was to remove (mode . c++) from the c-mode settings.  The reason
> > for this is that all C++ files in the gdbserver/ directory now have
> > the .cc suffix, and we don't (currently) have any .c files in there. I
> > assume that if did add a .c file in the future, it really would be C,
> > not C++, so forcing c++-mode seems like the wrong thing to do.
> > 
> > The copyright date in the new file is left as for gdb/.dir-locals.el,
> > as the new file is an exact copy with one line removed.
> > 
> > gdbserver/ChangeLog:
> > 
> > 	* .dir-locals.el: New file.
> > ---
> >  gdbserver/.dir-locals.el | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  gdbserver/ChangeLog      |  4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 gdbserver/.dir-locals.el
> > 
> > diff --git a/gdbserver/.dir-locals.el b/gdbserver/.dir-locals.el
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 00000000000..28a6df0de07
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/gdbserver/.dir-locals.el
> > @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
> > +;; Emacs settings.
> > +;; Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> ... and I think they year needs to be just '2020'.

As per this rule:

  https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Copyright_Header

When copying a file the start date of the original file should be
maintained I think.

Thanks,
Andrew



> 
> Thanks.
> -Baris
> 
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