Need reviewer on addition of whitespace normalizer script

[Kelly O'Hair]

I don't understand the question. It only changes TAB characters, removes trailing whitespace on lines,
and duplicate blank lines at the end of the file.

-kto

On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:00 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote:

> Does this handle the difference between indents in HotSpot (indent 2) vs the JDK (indent 4)? 
> 
> /Staffan
> 
> On 1 mar 2012, at 22:32, 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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