On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 18:50 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Joe Perches wrote: > > > There are many blocks of code that could be > > unindented and so neatened by reversing tests. [] > > Which often saves many vertical lines by reducing > > now unnecessary line-wrapping done at 80-columns. > > I tried it. One can't easily make the transformation when there is a > variable declaration in the block. And Coccinelle doesn't move leading > comments over to the left. Most of the examples I found seemed to have > only one level of opportunity. I don't know if the churn is worth it in > that case. On a more complex example, the pretty printer crashes, so I'll > have to look into that.
[] > > A trivial hand-produced example selected randomly: [] > > --- > > .../broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c | 455 > > +++++++++------------ > > 1 file changed, 201 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-) Dunno about the churn, but converting many lines of badly wrapped simple statements and reducing line count seems somewhat worthwhile.
