79-column lines

[Roland McGrath]

I've recently fixed up a few ChangeLog entries that had lines of 80
characters or more (in recent fresh commits).

All source files in glibc must use lines of fewer than 80 characters.
The only exceptions are when it's syntactically impossible to split a
line for some reason.  In the case of ChangeLog files, that would only
occur when a single file's full name (i.e. relative name from the
ChangeLog location) exceeds 69 characters, or when the sum of the
length of a person's real name and email address exceeds 64 characters,
or when an identifier named in an entry exceeds 69 characters.  None of
those cases has ever arisen before, and they seem unlikely.

This rule will not change, so just accept it and move on whatever you
might prefer.

Please pay attention to the line lengths when reviewing a patch or when
committing your own changes.


Thanks,
Roland