warning to users of INDENT.EXE
Tim Bomgardner
bomgard at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Thu Nov 22 03:24:13 AEST 1990
I recently inherited a large multi-file c program with little or no
visual structure (indenting, whitespace, etc.). I ran it all thru
indent. A couple days later I discovered indent had made some
unauthorized changes. In particular, all statements that were
originally in the form
var=-1;
or
ptr=&var;
were changed to
var -= 1;
or
ptr &= var;
What a disaster. Just thought you all might like to know.
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