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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix empty macros in acpi.
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:55:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707220055.16577.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070703054455.GB32110@redhat.com>

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 01:44, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:22:47AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> 
>  > whelp, it seems that the reason for this patch is this:
>  > 
>  > #define DBG()
>  > 
>  > if(...)
>  > 	DBG();
>  > next_c_statement
>  > 
>  > which turns into
>  > if(...) ;
>  > next_c_statement
>  > 
>  > But since there is an intervening ';', this code is still functionally correct
>  > and a decent compiler will delete the test altogether, yes?
> 
> Right, gcc does generate the correct code.
> 
>  > So is there some real problem here that I missed,
>  > or is this to make some code-checking tool that I don't have happy?
> 
> Out of curiousity, I thought I'd see what was lurking in a -Wextra
> build a while back. It's 99.9% noise, but a lot of it is trivial stuff
> like this.

okay, i'll apply it to reduce the noise.

thanks,
-Len

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-22  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-12 23:33 Fix empty macros in acpi Dave Jones
2007-06-13  0:00 ` Al Viro
2007-06-13  0:21   ` Dave Jones
2007-06-13  0:26     ` Al Viro
2007-07-03  5:22       ` Len Brown
2007-07-03  5:44         ` Dave Jones
2007-07-22  4:55           ` Len Brown [this message]

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