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Re: [doc RFA] Switch to GCC coding style [Re: [patch] initial OpenCL C language support]


> On balance, I think we should simply have our own coherent document.
> It can copy verbatim all the stuff that is relevant to GDB, but it
> should include the above renames, and it should omit everything that
> is irrelevant.  Any other way, we will just confuse potential
> contributors: it is perhaps easy for us old-timers to distinguish
> between the relevant and the rest, but for a newbie contributor it
> could be an impossible requirement.  To say nothing of the fact that
> they will now have to read two documents instead of 1.

I really agree with the above.

-- 
Joel


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