[PATCH v2] Add .clang-format

[Andrew C Aitchison]

This is a reply to
   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2025-September/143986.html
- since I wasn't signed up to the list I don't think this will
thread with Simon's email.

> I suggest to ask the binutils folks if they would be fine with having it
> at the top-level, it would simplify things.  Adding binutils@.
> 
> Binutils people, some of us GDB people would like to add a .clang-format
> file in the tree.  This file represents the best approximation we have
> of our style that we are able to do with clang-format.  The intent, for
> now, is just to allow people to use git-clang-format, or formatting
> portions of code in IDEs, to get reasonably close to the correct
> formatting, keeping in mind that the output might need some manual
> adjustments.
> 
> Are you ok with having this file at the top-level?  Just adding this
> file shouldn't alter anybody's workflow.
>
> Simon

I am new to binutils and sourceware.org, so my view may count little.


I made my first submission this month (September) and it has been
approved, but follow up submissions are stuck in formatting, even
after two two complete writes.

I'm new to git-format-patch and git-send-email; have found with no
(human or computer) format/style guide, my editor is set to destroy the 
binutils' tabbing preferences (since they are different from the 
other projects I've worked on) and two reviewers have made explict
requests for changes to spacing.

Until I see formatting instructions; either a config like
.clang-format or something a human can follow, I do not expect to
continue with this patch submission.

So, yes please, I vote for a .clang-format file at the top level.

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew@aitchison.me.uk