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From: gertjan@westc.uucp (Gertjan van Oosten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Do you trust the "indent" program?
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.124950.13837@westc.uucp>
Date: 7 Jan 91 12:49:50 GMT
Organization: West Consulting bv, Delft, The Netherlands
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> In article <12184@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@sybase.com writes:
> 
> > Do you trust 'indent'
> > enough to run it on all your source file without making any mistakes?
>
> I don't need to -- I can compile my programs before and after
> and compare the object files.  If they're not identical,
> something's broken.
> -- 
>				--Andrew Koenig
>				  ark@europa.att.com

Sadly, this is not enough :-(

I had a version of 'indent' (sorry, don't know which, nor the OS version (it
was SunOS)) that ate some comment from my file.
And I definitely do NOT consider source files with and without comment equal.

As an aside: what does one do when the object files aren't identical?

Regards,
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