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From: rick@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Rick Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Do you trust the "indent" program?
Message-ID: <256@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au>
Date: 24 Dec 90 05:21:58 GMT
References: <12184@sybase.sybase.com>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
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forrest@sybase.com writes:
>Let's say your company just decided on a coding standard and let's
>say you were able to come up with a specification file for the
>'indent' program that would allow 'indent' to change all your
>1000's of source files to meet the standard. Do you trust 'indent'
>enough to run it on all your source file without making any mistakes?
>By mistakes I mean changes that actually change your code so that it
>does something different than what it did before you ran it through
>'indent'.

Why don't you run a copy of your src files through indent, recompile,
and compare new object files with the old versions? The proof of the
pudding...

Rick.
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