Need reviewer on addition of whitespace normalizer script

[Per Bothner]

On 03/02/2012 03:04 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 3/03/2012 3:12 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I think the issue is what does it replace a TAB with? 4 spaces for JDK
> or 2 spaces for Hotspot?

TAB width is not necessarily related to indentation width.
GNU or Unix traditionally effectively just uses tabs for compression, to
8-column boundaries, but the indentation increment is usually less.
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