<div dir="ltr">Did Dr Mills have a preferred C style? If he did, was it not terrible?<div><br></div><div>What is everyone else's preferred C indent style?</div><div><br></div><div>I have my own favorite, but I'm not the one who has to read and rework the C code.</div><div><br></div><div>..m</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:18 AM Daniel Poirot <<a href="mailto:dtpoirot@gmail.com">dtpoirot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Before long, everyone will be using a virtual machine with an<br class="gmail_msg">
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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Eric S. Raymond <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Hal Murray <<a href="mailto:hmurray@megapathdsl.net" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">hmurray@megapathdsl.net</a>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> >> Running uncrustify against NTPsec is good idea, but it needs to<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> be a flag day, because it will be a huge patch.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> > ...pretty much a 'fork' from which there is no recovery...<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> Is that a serious problem? If so, why?<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> It would mean that I couldn't (usefully) diff versions of a file that crossed<br class="gmail_msg">
>> the flag day, but I don't think I do that very often. I'm more likely to let<br class="gmail_msg">
>> git diff version X and X-1 and if we trust uncrustify I won't be doing that<br class="gmail_msg">
>> for X being the flag day.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I concur with Hal's doubt that this is a serious problem. I don't find myself<br class="gmail_msg">
> doing diffs with very old versions often. If I did, diff -b (ignoring<br class="gmail_msg">
> whitespace) would probably mitigate a lot of them.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I've installed uncrustify. I'll do some experoments.<br class="gmail_msg">
> --<br class="gmail_msg">
> <a href="<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/</a>">Eric S. Raymond</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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