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Stan Ryckman (stanr@tiac.net) wrote:
: :Have you ever heard of GNU indent?  
: :run the two c files through indent before you diff them and everything will
: :work out fine.

: Good idea... except what I had in mind would have identified the
: line numbers in the original files when differences were found.  Also,
: an option would have allowed comments to be equal to all white space.

Diff has no knowledge of C, which is why you have to grind them through
indent first.  It's a good idea to use it in general, eliminates squabbling
over brace and other style issues that some people get embroiled in.

: Just curious, what would GNU indent do with:
: 	(a)	x+++y
: 	(b)	x++ +y
: 	(c)	x+ ++y
: ?
: (Note that two of these need to match, and one mustn't!)

It's broken if it doesn't match (b) since the language states that the next
token is the longest string of characters that consitutes one.

-jack-