GNU style checker for GDB

[Simon Marchi]

On 2021-03-08 5:39 p.m., David Blaikie wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:31 PM Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca <mailto:simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2021-03-08 3:39 p.m., David Blaikie wrote:
>     > 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.
> 
>     That's one of those things I'd really like to try, but will never have
>     time.  But I can at least file some bugs.
> 
>     What stopped me from doing so in the past is that the missing things
>     were really some things I would consider like oddities / inconsistency
>     of our style.  For example, we use space before parenthesis, except for
>     the `_` (gettext) macro:
> 
>       printf (_("Hello %s\n"), name);
> 
>     If we tell clang-format we want spaces before function call parenthesis,
>     it (rightfully) inserts a space after the `_`.  To prevent that, I
>     suppose we'd need a way to say: in general I want this style, but for
>     this macro I want this other style.  I fear I'll be called crazy if I
>     request that :).
> 
> 
> I think if you can point to a widely used style (the gdb (& binutils more generally?) codebase) there's probably going to be a fair bit of sympathy/understanding there. 

Ok, I will.  Worst case, the idea is shot down.

I filed a first one here:

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49481

Simon