Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon

[jacopo <jacopo@jmondi.org>]

Hi Alexandre
   hope you're doing good!

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:23:12PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 30/03/2017 at 15:30:46 +0200, jacopo wrote:
> > Hi Arushi,
> >    thanks for your patch
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 06:16:03PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> > > Replace a comma between expression statements by a semicolon. This
> > > changes the semantics of the code, but given the current indentation
> > > appears to be what is intended.
> > > A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch that performs this
> > > transformation is as follows:
> > > 
> > > // <smpl>
> > > @r@
> > > expression e1,e2;
> > > @@
> > > 
> > >  e1
> > > -,
> > > +;
> > >  e2;
> > > // </smpl>
> > > 
> > 
> > You can simply say that this fixes what appears to be a bug to me.
> > I wonder how this does even compile..
> > 
> 
> It is not a bug, it is perfectly valid and working as expected/intended.
> This is just a cosmetic change.
> 
> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator if you want to
> understand.
> 

Thanks! That's valid and legal (I should have thought at multiple
expression in for(;;) as an example).
Ignore my comment then (I still don't think it was "intended" as it's
quite unusual to see commas there :)

Thanks
   j

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