Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] linux/bug.h: correct "space required before that '-'"

[Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>]

On Thu, May 25 2017, Ian Abbott wrote:
> Correct these checkpatch.pl errors:
>
> |ERROR: space required before that '-' (ctx:OxO)
> |#37: FILE: include/linux/bug.h:37:
> |+#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); }))
>
> |ERROR: space required before that '-' (ctx:OxO)
> |#38: FILE: include/linux/bug.h:38:
> |+#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void *)sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); }))
>
> I decided to wrap the bitfield expressions that begin with minus signs
> in parentheses rather than insert spaces before the minus signs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

To be honest though, I would squash the fixes with the rename.

> ---
> v5: Actually, there was no v1 thru v4.  I called this v5 to match the
> series.
> ---
>  include/linux/bug.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h
> index 216a1b79653d..483207cb99fb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bug.h
> @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ struct pt_regs;
>   * e.g. in a structure initializer (or where-ever else comma expressions
>   * aren't permitted).
>   */
> -#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); }))
> -#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void *)sizeof(struct { int:-!!(e); }))
> +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); }))
> +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void *)sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); }))
>  
>  /*
>   * BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID() permits the compiler to check the validity of the

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