Manu Abraham schrieb:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em Qua, 2007-10-10 Ã s 11:59 -0400, Alan Cox escreveu:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:35:41PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em Qua, 2007-10-10 Ã s 00:18 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu:
Is this illegal as per kernel codingstyle?
Yes, it is. CodingStyle states:
<rant>
No.. "Illegal" means prohibited by law. Its merely wrong 8)
</rant>
LOL
The proper fix is just to replace the offended code by this:
err=foo();
if (error)
goto error;
Lots of code uses
if ((err = foo()) < 0)
so I would'y worry too much. The split one however clearer and also
safer.
Yes, this is not a severe CodingStyle violation. Still, the above code
is better than the used one.
Since, on your example, it is clear that the programmer wanted to test
if the value is less than zero.
The code:
if ( (err=foo()) )
should also indicate an operator mistake of using =, instead of ==.
Probably, source code analyzers like Coverity will complain about the
above.
If not violating CodingStyle, I would rather prefer to code this as:
if ( !(err=foo() )
or, even better, using:
if ( (err=foo()) != 0)
clearly indicating that it is tested if the value is not zero.
Even being a quite simple issue, I would prefer if Jiri can fix it.
When you have only some few lines of code you can write
err = foo()
if (err) {
do whatever
}
doesn't matter ..
But when you have hell a lot of code, checking error's what you
mention is insane.
ie,
if ((err = foo()) expr ) is better.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/4/56
Manu
hi manu,
it's not worth discussing this in a way like
"i know something from the past and that was a different solution".
if you look to other parts in that thread like
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/3/150
you will see that they came also to a kind of different solution,
NOT to use the 1-liner for assignment statements.
it's more like a religious/personal discussion how to
struct/indent/format code.
and, to state my position for clear,
if kernel coding style document isnt updated to allow the constructions
of code that caused this discussion, we dont have to discuss but follow
the rules.
anything else on this topic (coding style and it's sense) is to be
discussed on kernel ml.
my 2ct
marcel
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