Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "ring_free"

Joe Perches
2014-11-23T19:06:26Z

On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 20:03 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Why not just make the static source code analysis aware of the problem?
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> This is also possible, of course.
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> > You can treat static functions differently that non-static ones.
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> I have added this detail to my ideas around the next fine-tuning
> for the published semantic patch approach.
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> > There is no need to change the code.
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> Can name space prefixes help to make source code a bit safer eventually?

Not really.
Adding prefixes can make code unnecessarily more verbose though.