fix "too much information" bug w/ "info vector" on PowerPC

Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
Tue Aug 30 22:46:00 GMT 2005


Jim Blandy wrote:

>Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
>>On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:42:31PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote:
>>
>>>- I'm not sure why the indentation in your patch is weird, but in any
>>>  case, there seems to be a preference for using spaces in new code,
>>>  not tabs.
>>>
>>Er, really?  GNU convention is tabs, as far as I know.
>>
>
>I don't see anything in the coding standards, but maybe I've missed
>something.
>
>Avoiding tab characters makes patches read normally and avoids
>problems with different tab sizes.  And all the popular editors can be
>configured to make the 'tab' command use either.  Most of the other
>Free software projects I know of have a convention of using spaces.
>
I think we're still on the tab standard, despite its flaws. I think
eCos folks decided to go the spaces way, and got hassled by
everybody else at Cygnus for it. :-)

Stan



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