I don't understand the question. It only changes TAB characters, removes trailing whitespace on lines, and duplicate blank lines at the end of the file.
-kto On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:00 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote: > Does this handle the difference between indents in HotSpot (indent 2) vs the > JDK (indent 4)? > > /Staffan > > On 1 mar 2012, at 22:32, Kelly O'Hair wrote: > >> >> Need reviewer. Adding the whitespace normalizer script as a convenience to >> the jdk developers. >> >> 6625113: Add the normalize and rmkw perl script to the openjdk repository or >> openjdk site? >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/normalizer-script/webrev/ >> >> Probably a little history is warranted here. This script was originally >> written to normalize the >> whitespace in the jdk7 sources as they entered the Mercurial repositories in >> "changeset 0". >> It's been modified since then very slightly. I can't recall who wrote it >> (please speak up if you know) >> but it has been a valuable tool and I've had this CR to add it to the >> make/scripts directory for some time. >> >> The SCCS keyword removed (rmkw) was less useful, and I decided that it did >> not deserve being added. >> >> Why whitespace normalization? This was decided a long time ago when we had a >> raft of complaints from >> people viewing the sources with different tools and getting different views >> based on the TABs and trailing >> blanks or trailing newlines. So we decided to normalize on no TABs, no >> trailing blanks on lines, and >> no more than one blank line at the end of the file. This script was used to >> do that normalization. >> >> -kto >> >
