I'm using GNU indent 2.2.9 on Fedora 8. This is a pretty minor thing, and doesn't affect the use of indent for GCC. But, I thought I'd report it anyway.
Generally it is best if '--help' output goes to stdout (so that users can "foo --help | more"). And, typically GNU programs exit with status 0 when --help or --version is specified. The rationale is, the program did what the user wanted, so there was no error, so status 0 is correct. indent --help prints some things to stderr and some to stdout, which is strange. And, the --help output is not very helpful. Try something like "cp --help" to see something that is quite helpful -- almost like a brief man page. Also, both indent --help and indent --version exit with status 1. Tom _______________________________________________ bug-indent mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-indent
