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Re: [patch] more comment cleanups
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, "mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl" <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:05:54 -0800
- Subject: Re: [patch] more comment cleanups
- References: <4D1E60A0.1020601@vmware.com> <201012312312.oBVNC4fc013647@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <AANLkTimc4kNHOfO2B95cyKjN9SN1O_+LQ3O_4FpwZ3rR@mail.gmail.com> <4D1E732E.4090002@vmware.com> <834o9tq96f.fsf@gnu.org> <4D1F71B0.9060006@vmware.com> <20110103043359.GO2396@adacore.com>
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> So what do others think about source lines over 70 columns?
>
> Enforcing a maximum length of 70 characters seems awfully low to me.
> It's fine if someone decides to use 70 characters for his comments,
> of even his code, but I think that 76 or 78 would give better results.
> I even allow myself to go up to 80 when splitting a line makes it
> particularly ugly and hard to read...
>
ChangeLog should be limited to 74 columns:
[hjl@gnu-6 gdb]$ tail gdb/ChangeLog
For older changes see ChangeLog-2009.
Local Variables:
mode: change-log
left-margin: 8
fill-column: 74
version-control: never
coding: utf-8
End:
[hjl@gnu-6 gdb]$
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H.J.