suggestions for GNU indent (regexpr in types)

[Basile Starynkevitch]

Hello All,

I am a contributor to GCC (with plain write after approval status) -
but my copyright assigment form don't cover GNU indent (and it was so
painful to get from my employer that I won't ask any other one for GNU
indent, so I won't send any patch to GNU indent).

However, I do have some wishes for GNU indent (my
Debian/Linux/AMD64/Sid or Ubuntu/Maeverick/AMD64 systems have GNU
indent 2.2.10).

First, add some regular expression matching facility for the -T option.
For instance, one could imagine an option --type-filter which given
some regexp (or some glob(3) pattern if you prefer) would admit as
types any identifier matching it. For example, all the public types of
<pthreads.h> -eg pthread_mutex_t pthread_cond_t pthread_barrier_t have
a common pattern, starting with pthread_ and ending with _t.

In addition, I would be delighted if GNU indent matched even better the
GNU coding styles, in particular the GCC ones.

At last, I dream of GNU indent accepting C++ code (but there is astyle
already); the GCC compiler is switching to C++ internally (but that is
a long road).

Thanks for reading.

I will probably unsubscribe quite soon from this list, so feel free to
CC me explicitly.

Cheers.
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