Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:21:54 -0500 Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:11:01PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:11:36AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >  > > I'm all ears for additional regexps, bug reports or other suggestions.
> >  > 
> >  > Neat.
> >  > 
> >  > Does it check for:
> >  > 
> >  > functions marked extern?

	data marked extern?

> >  > pulling in external functions or variables without a header file?
> >  > return used as a function, eg return(foo);?
> > 
> > These sound a little more tricky than just dumb regexps.
> > I don't want to expand this to a fullblown C parser (given
> > that we have sparse which can do a better job), but I don't
> > object to adding some extra code to give the searches more
> > context.
> 
> The first is a straightforward one-line regexp, as is the last:
> 
> ^extern \w.*\w\(

Just omit the ending \( to catch functions or data.
Added.

> return\s?\(

Added.  Thanks.

> The middle one is a bit trickier. Basically, we don't want people
> doing either:
> 
> extern int capital_of_assyria;
> int sir_not_appearing_in_this_module();
> 
> in .c files. The first of those two is easy, provided you can figure
> out the file type. And both are possible with multiline regexps.
> 
> This whole thing would be quite a bit more powerful if your search
> function joined all the lines together, did a potentially multiline
> search, then calculated the line numbers from the search results. Then
> you could search for things like:
> 
> if (...)
> {
> 
> if (...) {
>   single_statement;
> }
> 
> Looking forward to fully-automated pedantry. This should probably live
> in scripts/.


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