I mean that it's not implied that there's exactly one blank line which
his script enforces. If there are two lines, one is deleted. I would
claim that the fact that there are blank lines at all could be looked at
as a way to make the comments stand out in the particular text on the
wiki, although in many circumstances it would be good to have the spacing.

Gabe

Steve Reinhardt wrote:
> The spacing is definitely implied, since there are actual spaces
> between the groups in the example... I agree that we don't want to go
> overboard on strict rules, but if we're going to have groups, then
> having spacing between them makes sense to me.
>
> I don't have really strong feelings about include ordering myself,
> though it is nice to have some convention.  I certainly don't have
> strong enough feelings to stop Nate from running his script if he wants.
>
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     I looked at that too, and while the grouping is mentioned and the
>     order
>     seems to be implied (but not mentioned) the spacing doesn't seem
>     to even
>     be implied. This change itself isn't a big deal, even though in a
>     perfect world it would be best to get rid of the whitespace only
>     changes. The thing that worries me the most is that if this
>     becomes part
>     of an automated check, the spacing could be required which seems a
>     little draconian to me, especially since it's at best hinted at by the
>     style guide and nobody but Nate seems to have known about it.
>
>     Gabe
>
>     Steve Reinhardt wrote:
>     > I had to look it up, but Nate's right, the spacing is part of the
>     > official style (and I checked to verify he didn't just add this
>     to the
>     > wiki either):
>     > http://m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Coding_Style#.23includes
>     >
>     > So I'd have to agree with Nate that even though normally we'd
>     not want
>     > csets that just add or remove whitespace, in this case they are part
>     > of making existing code match the official style, so it seems
>     > appropriate to me.
>     >
>     > Steve
>     >
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