GNU style checker for GDB

[David Blaikie]

If anyone's interested in investing some time in it, I expect clang-format
would be open to bugs/patches to support whatever formatting idioms gdb
needs.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:26 AM Simon Marchi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
wrote:

> On 2021-03-08 8:10 a.m., Zied Guermazi wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > is there a style checker that I can use to detect styles issues before
> sending patches to gdb-patches@sourceware.org?
> >
> > I have the program indent installed on my machine. can it be used for
> this purpose? which options shall i use?
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Zied Guermazi
>
> People try now and then to configure tools to do this, but so
> unfortunately so far there is no tool/configuration that matches exactly
> the style we use.  If I remember correctly, indent does not know C++, so
> it's not useful here.  clang-format can get quite close, but not enough
> so that we can say "just run this and it will be fine".
>
> To be clear, I really wish there existed such a tool, it would simplify
> things a lot.
>
> Simon
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