Re: CC Mode 5.28 (C); struct braces are not indented in GNU style

[Richard Stallman]

    GNU coding standards say: 
     "It is important to put the open-brace that starts the body of a C
     function in column one, and avoid putting any other open-brace or
     open-parenthesis or open-bracket in column one"  


    But given a code snippet like:

    struct foobar  
     {
      int x;
     };

    indent-region reformats it as:

    struct foobar  
    {
      int x;
    };

    which is contrary to the second clause of this sentence.

The standards are too strict; sometimes it is useful for the struct
defintion to be treated as a defun.

I don't think the C indentation commands know how to distinguish
functions from structs.  But perhaps they should not alter
the indentation of a top-level open-brace.

What do others think of that?