This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [doc RFA] Switch to GCC coding style [Re: [patch] initial OpenCL C language support]
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:11:21 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> > Yes, it would be better. But I am not going to spend the time on it myself.
>
> As a first step, I don't mind duplicating the GCC Conventions Wiki page
> onto ours, and then removing all the GCC-specific parts. I just want
> to make sure that we're all happy to go that way.
>
> > > To say nothing of the fact that they will now have to read two documents
> > > instead of 1.
> >
> > 3 instead of 2 (besides GNU Coding Standards and gdbint.texinfo Coding
> > Standards proposing also GCC Coding Conventions).
>
> I agree that 1 document would be better, even if we end up duplicating
> some information in GCS. It's just simpler for everyone.
Not sure about that. Quite a few people are already familliar with
the GNU Coding standards. Having a document that describes just the
additional bits means there is less material to read through, and less
likely for people to miss the GDB-specific bits.