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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Again, why whitespace cleanups


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Again, why whitespace cleanups
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:56:30 -0400
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 03:00:04AM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> Please take a look at this screenshot to see why whitespace fixes are
> important.
> 
> <a href="http://mercury.linuxguru.net/~jblack/WhyWhitespace.png>Here</a>

Not important enough.

[I presume that image is supposed to demonstrate the broken display code in
whatever tool that is, but I note that the it appears to be comparing two
copies of the same file with differing whitespace -- exactly the sort of
lossage your proposed "fixes" will cause!]

-Miles
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