Re: Indenting the source

Ed Beroset wrote:
> Therefore, while HPA's line specifies more (which is a good thing, IMHO) 
> the only actual *differences* are as follows:
>
> Ed: -ci8 -nlp
> HPA: -ci4 -lp
>
> To borrow an example from the indent man pages, the difference would 
> look like this with -ci8 -nlp:
>
> p1 = first_procedure (second_procedure (p2, p3),
>         third_procedure (p4, p5));
>
> With -ci4 -lp in effect the code looks like this:
>
> p1 = first_procedure (second_procedure (p2, p3),
>                       third_procedure (p4, p5));
>
>
> Because these are minor differences, I could endorse either, but I would 
> very much like to have one consistently applied style throughout, no 
> matter what that style.

OK, both of those I feel fairly strongly about.  I really want the 
difference between statements like if, for, and while and function 
calls, and NASM, like most compilers, is really way too nested to be 
well handled by an indentation level of 8 and still have space for comments.

Linus doesn't believe in comments, so he advocates indentation by 8.  To 
quote Andrew Morton, "however, I do."

I actually like spaces around the parens in if, for, and while 
statements ONLY, but it doesn't seem to be doable with GNU indent.

If this is OK with everyone else, I'll run indent over the sources and 
check those in as a separate checkin.  It's still a flag day -- you 
effectively lose all change tracking across the reformat -- but at least 
there are no other changes involved.

I think I've effectively decided to rewrite a big chunk of the outbin 
file.  There is way too much in there that has to be sanitized, I fear. 
 The new design I'm sketching on has a major advantage, though: it 
should allow "hanging sections" (sections aligned from the top down), 
which very few linkers can generate.

        -hpa


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