[aarch64-port-dev ] Fix whitespace

[Andrew Haley]

On 14/11/14 10:54, Edward Nevill wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 15:41 +0000, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>> On 13/11/14 14:37, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> I really hate to do this, but...
>>>
>>> We're merging to the staging repo, and that uses jcheck, so we really
>>> have to follow jcheck rules for whitespace.  That means I'm going to
>>> have to clean up the source files in HotSpot.  All of them.  So it'll
>>> make an awful mess of the diffs.  I think there's no choice, though.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>> What is there to have an opinion on? As far as I can see we just have to
>> do it.
> 
> We have to do it for the staging repo, but I think the question is
> what to we do with the existing jdk8/jdk9 repos.
> 
> My feeling is that we should do it to the existing repos so that we
> can continue using the existing repos for experiments and make the
> task of merging upstream easier.

Right.  To do otherwise makes merging to the staging repo impossible.

> We should have done this from day 1.

Err, yeah.  But it didn't seem important at the time.

> The following may help:-)

I believe there is a GNU program called expand(1).

Ta,
Andrew.