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Re: [RFC-v2] Fix hpux_major_release variable setting


> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:52:50 -0800
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
> 
> Pierre Muller wrote:
> >   Thanks for the feedback to 
> > Pedro and Joel.
> > 
> >  Committed with void added.
> > 
> > Pierre
> > 
> > PS: The nit by Joel was a problem when I sent the patch,
> > there are no 4 empty lines, but 
> > there is a "^L" line, which got lost
> > by the way I sent the patch in.
> 
> Does it make sense to remove these ^L characters?
> I doubt if anybody prints out these sources any more...

To me they serve as logical markers to seperate sections of code.  I
believe the GNU coding standards already mention that they're meant
for that purpose only and not meant for printing source code at all.

Using them has always been a matter of taste; I don't see a good
reason for going through the code to eliminate them.


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