Re: First-time binutils repository code-stare - indentation and contribution process

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Francois H. Theron wrote:

> I'm not going to touch any existing whitespace now. For new code I'd
> like to confirm one last thing: when indenting code to a deep level,
> is leading spaces acceptable or should every 8 spaces always be
> replaced with a hard tab char? I'm hoping that the 8 column tab is
> only for display purposes and that simple 2-space indentation with no
> hard tab chars is fine for new code. Many editors don't like this of
> course.

 We do use tabs for leading multiples of 8 spaces, i.e. where indentation 
nesting reaches such a number, followed by spaces for the remainder to 
reach the column required.

 I think it's not actually written down anywhere, nor at least I can find 
where either the GNU Coding Standard: 
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting> or the GDB 
Coding Standard: 
<https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Internals%20GDB-C-Coding-Standards#Formatting_Your_Code> 
-- which we generally follow, having no own copy -- explicitly mentions 
the use of tabs for indentation.  I believe this is what the `indent' 
options quoted in the GNU Coding Standard do, as does Emacs, which is 
where the rules have been set.

 I can't comment on editorconfig, sorry.

  Maciej