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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "peter.maydell@linaro.org" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com" <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>,
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	"armbru@redhat.com" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>,
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	"Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/8] CODING_STYLE: Section about conditional statement
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:53:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140805155335.GB17278@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjfjj5s8.fsf@linaro.org>

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Gonglei (Arei) writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >> > Yoda conditions lack readability, and QEMU has a
> >> > strict compiler configuration for checking a common
> >> > mistake like "if (dev = NULL)". Make it a written rule.
> <snip>
> >> 
> >> I know this is my suggested text, but now that I'm re-reading it, I'd
> >> recommend s/0/1/ in all three places, since comparison to 0 is one of
> >> those special cases where '!a' is faster to write than 'a == 0'.
> >> 
> > Got it.
> 
> Should we add explicit examples for:
> 
> if (x)
> if (!x)
> 
> then?

Some people prefer a != NULL and not !a.
It's easy to change all == NULL and != NULL if
people prefer this:

http://www.emn.fr/z-info/coccinelle/rules/badzero.html



> -- 
> Alex Bennée

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-05 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01  7:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 for-2.2 0/8] don't use Yoda conditions arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/8] CODING_STYLE: Section about conditional statement arei.gonglei
2014-08-01 16:01   ` Eric Blake
2014-08-04  0:55     ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-08-05 15:48       ` Alex Bennée
2014-08-05 15:53         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-08-06  1:53           ` Gonglei (Arei)
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/8] usb: don't use 'Yoda conditions' arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/8] audio: " arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/8] isa-bus: " arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/8] " arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/8] spice: " arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/8] vl: " arei.gonglei
2014-08-01  7:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] vmxnet3: " arei.gonglei
2014-08-05 14:02 ` [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH v3 for-2.2 0/8] don't use Yoda conditions Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-05 14:02   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-06  1:47   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Gonglei (Arei)
2014-08-06  1:47     ` [Qemu-devel] " Gonglei (Arei)
2014-08-06  6:05     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Markus Armbruster
2014-08-06  6:05       ` Markus Armbruster
2014-08-06  6:57       ` [Qemu-trivial] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-06  6:57         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-06  7:55         ` [Qemu-trivial] " Markus Armbruster
2014-08-06  7:55           ` Markus Armbruster
2014-08-06  1:53   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Eric Blake
2014-08-06  1:53     ` [Qemu-devel] " Eric Blake
2014-08-06  6:53     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-08-06  6:53       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin

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