Re: GNU style checker for GDB

Simon Marchi via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2021-03-08 8:10 a.m., Zied Guermazi wrote:
> hi,
> 
> is there a style checker that I can use to detect styles issues before sending patches to [email protected]?
> 
> I have the program indent installed on my machine. can it be used for this purpose? which options shall i use?
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Zied Guermazi

People try now and then to configure tools to do this, but so
unfortunately so far there is no tool/configuration that matches exactly
the style we use.  If I remember correctly, indent does not know C++, so
it's not useful here.  clang-format can get quite close, but not enough
so that we can say "just run this and it will be fine".

To be clear, I really wish there existed such a tool, it would simplify
things a lot.

Simon
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.