GCI Task review: breaking up long lines

[Joel Sherrill]

Would an objdump and diff on the before and after .o be sufficient?

Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

>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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