[doc RFA] Switch to GCC coding style [Re: [patch] initial OpenCL C language support]

[Doug Evans]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:20:50 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> GCC makes that rule explicit:
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html
> [...]
>> We tend to follow these already,
>
> In such case is this patch OK?
>
> Another question is bfd/, opcodes/ etc.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
>
> gdb/
> 2010-11-02  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>            Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>
>
>        * CONTRIBUTE (Coding Standards): Change to GCC Coding Conventions,
>        update URL.
>
> gdb/doc/
> 2010-11-02  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * gdbint.texinfo (Coding Standards): Change to GCC Coding
>        Conventions, provide URL.  Change `standards' to `conventions'.
>        (Testsuite): Change to GCC Coding Conventions.
>
> --- a/gdb/CONTRIBUTE
> +++ b/gdb/CONTRIBUTE
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ all contributors need to be aware of.
>
>  o      Coding Standards
>
> -       All contributions must conform to the GNU Coding Standard.
> +       All contributions must conform to the GCC Coding Conventions.
>        Submissions which do not conform to the standards will be
>        returned with a request to reformat the changes.
>
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ o     Coding Standards
>        requirements are explained in the GDB internals documentation
>        in the gdb/doc directory.
>
> -       Ref: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html
> +       Ref: http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html
>
>
>  o      Copyright Assignment
> --- a/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo
> +++ b/gdb/doc/gdbint.texinfo
> @@ -5765,13 +5765,12 @@ Binary search the array.
>
>  @section @value{GDBN} C Coding Standards
>
> -@value{GDBN} follows the GNU coding standards, as described in
> -@file{etc/standards.texi}.  This file is also available for anonymous
> -FTP from GNU archive sites.  @value{GDBN} takes a strict interpretation
> -of the standard; in general, when the GNU standard recommends a practice
> -but does not require it, @value{GDBN} requires it.
> +@value{GDBN} follows the GCC Coding Conventions, available from
> +@url{http://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html}.  @value{GDBN} takes a strict
> +interpretation of the standard; in general, when the GCC conventions recommend
> +a practice but do not require it, @value{GDBN} requires it.
>
> -@value{GDBN} follows an additional set of coding standards specific to
> +@value{GDBN} follows an additional set of coding conventions specific to
>  @value{GDBN}, as described in the following sections.
>
>  @subsection ISO C
> @@ -5784,7 +5783,7 @@ compiler.
>  @subsection Formatting
>
>  @cindex source code formatting
> -The standard GNU recommendations for formatting must be followed
> +The standard GCC recommendations for formatting must be followed
>  strictly.
>
>  A function declaration should not have its name in column zero.  A
> @@ -5831,7 +5830,7 @@ void* foo;
>  @subsection Comments
>
>  @cindex comment formatting
> -The standard GNU requirements on comments must be followed strictly.
> +The standard GCC requirements on comments must be followed strictly.
>
>  Block comments must appear in the following form, with no @code{/*}- or
>  @code{*/}-only lines, and no leading @code{*}:
> @@ -7821,7 +7820,7 @@ The source language programs do @emph{not} need to be in a consistent
>  style.  Since @value{GDBN} is used to debug programs written in many different
>  styles, it's worth having a mix of styles in the testsuite; for
>  instance, some @value{GDBN} bugs involving the display of source lines would
> -never manifest themselves if the programs used GNU coding style
> +never manifest themselves if the programs used GCC Coding Conventions
>  uniformly.
>
>  @node Hints
>

There are lots of things on the gcc codingconventions page that need
to be converted (e.g., gcc_assert), or revised (e.g., prototypes for
_initialize_foo fns can appear in .c files (and should *only* appear
in .c files)).

I'm not sure, but it might be simpler to just copy over the relevant bits.