Re: [Bug-gnulib] "# " versus " #" when indenting preprocessor directives

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> While we're on the subject of indenting preprocessing directives,
> would anyone object to using this style:
>
>   #ifndef POINTER_TYPE
>    #ifdef __STDC__
>     #define POINTER_TYPE void
>    #else
>     #define POINTER_TYPE char
>    #endif
>   #endif
>
> instead of this style:
>
> #  ifndef POINTER_TYPE
> #   ifdef __STDC__
> #    define POINTER_TYPE void
> #   else
> #    define POINTER_TYPE char
> #   endif
> #  endif

The former style is more attractive to many people (including me during
my first 5 years of C hacking). The problem is that there are tons of
GNU code using the latter style, and like Jim said today "maintaining a
consistent style of code formatting [is a] very worthy goal".

Bruno