Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-03 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 05/03/2016 06:39 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > On 05/03/2016 09:59 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote: >> >> And sometimes there are multiple acceptable ways of writing the >> same code. Which wins is an aesthetic choice, which tools tend to >> be bad at handling. E.g. if a parameter list is too long

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-03 Thread Bernd Schmidt
On 05/03/2016 09:59 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote: And sometimes there are multiple acceptable ways of writing the same code. Which wins is an aesthetic choice, which tools tend to be bad at handling. E.g. if a parameter list is too long for a line, there's often a choice of how to balance the

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-03 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Richard Sandiford wrote: > And sometimes there are multiple acceptable ways of writing the same code. > Which wins is an aesthetic choice, which tools tend to be bad at handling. > E.g. if a parameter list is too long for a line, there's often a choice > of how to balance the

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-03 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 05/03/2016 03:59 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Jeff Law writes: >> On 05/02/2016 02:40 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> >>> However, in the end, I think that yet-another-document is not the >>> solution we want. What we actually need is a program that just formats >>> your

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-03 Thread Richard Sandiford
Jeff Law writes: > On 05/02/2016 02:40 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> >> However, in the end, I think that yet-another-document is not the >> solution we want. What we actually need is a program that just formats >> your source according to the GNU Coding Style and that way you

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-02 Thread Jeff Law
On 05/02/2016 02:40 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: However, in the end, I think that yet-another-document is not the solution we want. What we actually need is a program that just formats your source according to the GNU Coding Style and that way you can always tell your users "Run indent" and be

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-05-02 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On 04/22/2016 12:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the > html attachment in the first attempt). > > We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my > attention that some people don't even make the effort to read the

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-04-25 Thread Richard Sandiford
Bernd Schmidt writes: > (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html > attachment in the first attempt). > > We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my > attention that some people don't even make the effort to read the

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-04-25 Thread Bernd Schmidt
On 04/22/2016 09:45 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote: On 04/22/2016 10:42 AM, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: Would you expect people to conform to the abridged version or the full standard? If the full standard, then publishing an abridged version is not a good idea, it will just cause confusion.

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-04-22 Thread Sandra Loosemore
On 04/22/2016 10:42 AM, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote: (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html attachment in the first attempt). We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-04-22 Thread Mikhail Maltsev
On 04/22/2016 07:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html > attachment in the first attempt). > > We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my attention > that some people don't even make the effort to read the

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-04-22 Thread Jason Merrill
On 04/22/2016 12:42 PM, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote: (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html attachment in the first attempt). We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been

Re: An abridged "Writing C" for the gcc web pages

2016-04-22 Thread Paul_Koning
> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > > (Apologies if you get this twice, the mailing list didn't like the html > attachment in the first attempt). > > We frequently get malformatted patches, and it's been brought to my attention > that some people