--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2011-07-05  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	maint: exempt stdio-read.c and stdio-write.c from the cppi check
+	* Makefile (sc_cpp_indent_check): Exempt stdio-read.c and stdio-write.c
+	per Bruno's request, to accommodate this idiom (no space after "#")
+	even when the function is inside an #if block:
+	char *
+	gets (char *s)
+	#undef gets
+	{
+	  ...
+	}
+
 2011-07-04  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
 	maint: indent with spaces, not TABs, and add a rule to check this

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
             $$(cd ./modules; grep -ilrE '(meyering|blake)' .) \
           | sort -u \
           | grep '\.c$$' \
-          | grep -v '/getloadavg\.c$$' \
+          | grep -vE '/(stdio-(read|write)|getloadavg)\.c$$' \
           | xargs cppi -c
 
 # Ensure that the list of symbols checked for by the