Need reviewer on addition of whitespace normalizer script

[Dmitry Samersoff]

David,

On 2012-03-02 11:55, David Holmes wrote:
> In what circumstances would a literal with an embedded tab be valid?
> AFAIK we should always be using /t.

It's a bad practice and probably we don't have such places in JDK,
but it's perfectly valid for Java language and I see no reason to
replace it forcibly.

-Dmitry

> 
> David
> -----
> 
>>
>> -Dmitry
>>
>> On 2012-03-02 01:32, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>
>>> Need reviewer. Adding the whitespace normalizer script as a
>>> convenience to the jdk developers.
>>>
>>> 6625113: Add the normalize and rmkw perl script to the openjdk
>>> repository or openjdk site?
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/normalizer-script/webrev/
>>>
>>> Probably a little history is warranted here. This script was
>>> originally written to normalize the
>>> whitespace in the jdk7 sources as they entered the Mercurial
>>> repositories in "changeset 0".
>>> It's been modified since then very slightly. I can't recall who wrote
>>> it (please speak up if you know)
>>> but it has been a valuable tool and I've had this CR to add it to the
>>> make/scripts directory for some time.
>>>
>>> The SCCS keyword removed (rmkw) was less useful, and I decided that
>>> it did not deserve being added.
>>>
>>> Why whitespace normalization? This was decided a long time ago when
>>> we had a raft of complaints from
>>> people viewing the sources with different tools and getting different
>>> views based on the TABs and trailing
>>> blanks or trailing newlines. So we decided to normalize on no TABs,
>>> no trailing blanks on lines, and
>>> no more than one blank line at the end of the file. This script was
>>> used to do that normalization.
>>>
>>> -kto
>>>
>>
>>


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Dmitry Samersoff
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