RE: indent syntax

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:51:53AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen@redhat.com>
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:45:14PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> > What indent syntax do you use for cygwin? I just noticed a huge
> >change
> >> > to the threads layout ..
> >> >
> >> > If you could let me know I'll use the same.
> >>
> >> We're using the GNU Coding Standard:
> >>
> >> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html
> >>
> >> Corinna
> >>
> >
> >Well that leaves me confused. Indent is meant to default to the GNu
> >coding standards. So why did Chris commit a change to pthread.cc,
> >thread.cc, that moved every function definition to the left 
> hand border?
> >I'm indenting these files with indent foo.c (indent 2.2.5).
> 
> Because indent did not do the right thing in this case.  The 
> GNU coding
> standard says that functions and braces should start at the leftmost
> border.
> 
> I don't know if there is an option to indent which 
> accomodates c++ specifically
> or not, but I suspect that indent is confused by the extern "C" {
> stuff.
> 
> cgf
> 

Ah. I'll see what I can find for indent and C++. I'm not looking forward
to reformatting these source files by hand to fix indent's confusion.

Rob