Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

Denis Vlasenko writes:

[...]

 > 
 > I remember that sizeof has two forms: sizeof(type) and
 > sizeof(expr), and in one of them ()'s are optional.
 > But I fail to remember in which one. I use ()'s always.

Formally speaking, sizeof have forms

        sizeof(type), and

        sizeof expr

it is just that expression can usually be wrapped into parentheses, like
(((((0))))).

 > 
 > Thanks for refreshing my memory but I'm sure
 > I'll forget again ;)

That's why we need more instances of sizeof expr in the kernel code, to
keep your knowledge of C afresh all the time. :-)

Note that Linux doesn't follow a custom of... some other kernels to
parenthesize everything to the heretical extent of writing 

   if ((a == 0) && (b == 1))

or

   return (foo);

 > --
 > vda

Nikita.
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