On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > it's perfectly legitimate, in fact more robust. So if checkpatch.pl
> > > wants to make any noise about such constructs it should warn about
> > > the _lack_ of curly braces in every multi-line condition block
> > > _except_ the only safe single-line statement:
> > >
> > > if (x)
> > > y();
> >
> > Indeed. We should probabally do more on the indentation checks in
> > general. The current direct check for:
> >
> > if (foo);
> > bar();
> >
> > Could probabally be generalised to look for this kind of error:
> >
> > if (foo)
> > bar();
> > baz();
> > one();
>
> detecting that would be awesome - it's often the sign of a real bug
> because the intent is often to have bar() and baz() in the conditional
> block.
Should probably detect these as well (if not yet being done):
if (abc)
#if...
def();
ghi();
#e...
...plus this one:
if (abc)
#if...
def();
#endif
ghi();
...Both of them are clearly bugs.
...and this where either indentation has to be fixed or the bug corrected:
if (abc)
def();
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i.
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