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From: Caroline Tice <cmt...@google.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [libvtv] Fix formatting errors
To: Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com>
Cc: Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>, GCC Patches
<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>


As far as I know vtv is working just fine...is there something I don't
know about?

-- Caroline
cmt...@google.com

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/26/2015 07:30 AM, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>
>> While looking at libvtv for the Solaris port, I noticed all sorts of GNU
>> Coding Standard violations:
>>
>> * ChangeLog entries attributed to the committer instead of the author
>>    and with misformatted PR references, entries only giving a vague
>>    rational instead of what changed
>>
>> * overlong lines
>>
>> * tons of whitespace errors (though I may be wrong in some cases: C++
>>    code might have other rules)
>>
>> * code formatting that seems to have been done to be visually pleasing,
>>    completely different from what Emacs does
>>
>> * commented code fragments (#if 0 equivalent)
>>
>> * configure.tgt target list in no recognizable order
>>
>> * the Cygwin/MingW port is done in the worst possible way: tons of
>>    target-specific ifdefs instead of feature-specific conditionals or an
>>    interface that can wrap both Cygwin and Linux variants of the code
>>
>> The following patch (as yet not even compiled) fixes some of the most
>> glaring errors.  The Solaris port will fix a few of the latter ones.
>>
>> Do you think this is the right direction or did I get something wrong?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>          Rainer
>>
>>
>> 2015-08-26  Rainer Orth  <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
>>
>>         Fix formatting errors.
>
> I'm more interested in the current state of vtv as I keep getting dragged 
> into discussions about what we can/should be doing in the compiler world to 
> close more security stuff.
>
> Vtables are an obvious candidate given we've got vtv.
>
> Jeff

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