GCI Task review: breaking up long lines

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Dec 5 00:41:25 UTC 2012


Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Hello,
> We're planning to have GCI students attempt to break up lines longer
> than 80 characters. I have created a description of the task at [1],
> please check that the directions are clear and that the way to handle
> long lines is stated well.
>
> If anyone has objections to this as a task please say so, or forever
> hold your peace.
>
> -Gedare
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/GoogleCodeInProjects#Break_Long_Lines
>

How do we know the changes have _not_ altered the code ?

Do we need to build apply patches and check the generated code is 100% 
the same ? This would make the amount of work to check the changes more 
than just doing the change. Diff'ing ELF files is complex.

Chris



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