[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] [RFC] Adding support for clang-format making further code modifying changes (original) (raw)

Renato Golin via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Aug 27 15:43:59 PDT 2021

On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 at 19:33, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:

It's the algorithm - clang-format is a numerical optimizer of "beauty" - any small changes can lead to the numerical outputs changing slightly, which then leads to slight diffs in how code is formatted where two options were previously considered very "similarly beautiful". It's not happening super often, but it does happen.

I agree that we shouldn't introduce changes to formatting without good reasons, but we can't restrict changes only to bug fixes - new features can introduce changes, too.

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