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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs master build failing on RHEL 6.8
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 20:49:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <342C2B19-E4BB-40FE-B979-74B72FF96442@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtve6e12c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

7 maj 2019 kl. 17.30 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> 
> I always thought that the `#` at to be in column-0, hence the
> indentation convention of:
> 
>    #if foo
>    #  define BAR toto
>    #endif
> 
> But since this is coming from Paul, I assume he knows that it's allowed
> to have spaces before the `#` (at least in recent enough versions of C?).

It's always been allowed as far as I know. Perhaps some pre-standard (K&R) preprocessors didn't like it.

It's common in style rules to mandate # at the left margin, but that always looked like superstition (or perverted aesthetics) to me.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-07 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-07 12:00 Emacs master build failing on RHEL 6.8 Kaushal Modi
2019-05-07 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-07 14:41   ` Kaushal Modi
2019-05-07 15:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-07 15:30       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-07 15:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-07 16:01           ` Kaushal Modi
2019-05-07 18:22             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-07 19:46               ` Kaushal Modi
2019-05-08  5:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-08  8:03                   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-08 11:42                   ` Kaushal Modi
2019-05-08 12:27                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-08 12:49                       ` Kaushal Modi
2019-05-08 13:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-08 15:07                           ` Kaushal Modi
2019-05-08 15:41                             ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-08 15:50                               ` Kaushal Modi
2020-02-14 19:49                                 ` WilliamKF
2020-02-14 20:44                                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-07 18:49         ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2019-05-08 15:57           ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-08 17:16             ` CPP indentation bikeshed (was: Emacs master build failing on RHEL 6.8) Stefan Monnier
2019-05-09  4:25               ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-07 17:37 ` Emacs master build failing on RHEL 6.8 martin rudalics
2019-05-07 18:20   ` Eli Zaretskii

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