Ian Lance Taylor writes: > Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Kai Tietz writes: > > > > > I want to remove some trailing whitespaces from gcc source as coding > > style > > > demands. Also I wrote, while doing a small tool for that, a feature to > > > replace horiz. tabs by spaces. But the question is by which width > > should > > > be used ? > > > > 8. > > But please do not turn tabs into spaces in the gcc source code. > > I think removing trailing whitespace would be OK,
Please don't check it in, though! That would be really bad. It would do horrible things to diffs, particularly between branches. Andrew.