Re: Emacs master build failing on RHEL 6.8

[Mattias Engdegård]

7 maj 2019 kl. 17.30 skrev Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> 
> I always thought that the `#` at to be in column-0, hence the
> indentation convention of:
> 
>    #if foo
>    #  define BAR toto
>    #endif
> 
> But since this is coming from Paul, I assume he knows that it's allowed
> to have spaces before the `#` (at least in recent enough versions of C?).

It's always been allowed as far as I know. Perhaps some pre-standard (K&R) 
preprocessors didn't like it.

It's common in style rules to mandate # at the left margin, but that always 
looked like superstition (or perverted aesthetics) to me.