[PATCH v0 1/3] gas: minor reformatting in command line help and doc

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Mon Jul 1 06:20:16 GMT 2024


On 28.06.2024 20:14, Matthieu Longo wrote:
>> On 27.06.2024 15:50, Matthieu Longo wrote:
>>>
>>> - help message: add missing comma between the short and long option
>>
>> Why "missing"? IOW who or what says there ought to be commas? Looking at just objcopy, objdump, and readelf, it's objdump being the outlier in having commas there.
> 
> ld, nm have commas as well. Python argparse also prints the short and long options separated with a comma. Same for git. The commas seem a bit more common.
> Gas has currently a mix of both, so I opted for the comma between short and long options.
> Do you have any objection to keep commas here ?

I don't strictly mind the change, as long as the justification is at
least "softened" a little. As to some (two) indeed having commas - I
surely value consistency. IOW alternatively those would want the commas
dropped (really: replaced by blanks).

Jan


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