79-column lines

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> 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 for the reminder Roland! :-)

Cheers,
Carlos.