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Re: [PATCH] Fix formatting in arena.c


On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:48:17 -0700 (PDT), Roland wrote:
> I think the usual rule is to stick to the prevailing conventions in
> the file when it's got a consistent style that's different from
> ours.  When adding entirely new code, even if intimately related to
> some existing code with different style like malloc, whenever it
> makes sense to do it in a separate file then that is the best thing
> to do and the new files of course use our normal style.  When the
> right thing to do is modify an existing file that has a different
> style we're intentionally preserving, go with the local flow.
> 

OK, thanks for clearing that. I have added this to the wiki:

http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Style_and_Conventions#Files_not_formatted_according_to_the_GNU_standard

Regards,
Siddhesh


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