RFR: 8311043: Remove trailing blank lines in source files

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:54:51 GMT, Leo Korinth <lkorinth at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Remove trailing "blank" lines in source files.
> 
> I like to use global-whitespace-cleanup-mode, but I can not use it if the files are "dirty" to begin with. This fix will make more files "clean". I also considered adding a check for this in jcheck for Skara, however it seems jcheck code handling hunks does not track end-of-files. Thus I will only clean the files.
> 
> The fix removes trailing lines matching ^[[:space:]]*$ in
> 
> - *.java
> - *.cpp
> - *.hpp
> - *.c
> - *.h 
> 
> I have applied the following bash script to each file:
> 
>     file="$1"
>     
>     while [[ $(tail -n 1 "$file") =~ ^[[:space:]]*$ ]]; do
>         truncate -s -1 "$file"
>     done
> 
> `git diff --ignore-space-change --ignore-blank-lines  master` displays no changes
> `git diff --ignore-blank-lines  master` displays one change

This seems to run contrary to the requirement that files end in a newline, which git will complain about if the newline is missing.

It also seems far too large and disruptive.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14698#issuecomment-1612567676