From: <jmk...@at...> - 2004-01-30 23:34:43
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Paul wrote: > I have noticed some odd behaviour from indent in a number of > locations. It seems to get confused when certain keywords are > enclosed within comments, "Class:" is a favourite.. Most of the > work I've done to date has been on a Debian Sarge box, so I would > presume most of the errors we are seeing are bugs in indent rather > than the code or settings. Did a little googling for indent bugs, found a few things... The official homepage for GNU indent is at: http://mysite.freeserve.com/indent/beautify.html and it says: NOTE: Indent is designed to support the C language. It is NOT, repeat NOT, designed to work with C++. It may work with some C++ code but you are on your own: usage of indent on C++ is not supported, so DO NOT complain if it doesn't work on your C++ code. Based on that info, perhaps we should modify the makefiles or make.rules so indent doesn't run on .cc and .hh files? Meanwhile, the indented sources in my working copy are now suspect. I will discard them and get fresh copies from the repository. Regards, John Kasunich |