Re: [PATCH V2] checkpatch: add check for whitespace before semicolon at end-of-line

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 08:59 -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:
> Requires --strict option during invocation:
> 	~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch
> 
> This tests for a bad habits of mine like this:
> 
> 	return 0 ;
> 
> Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon
> for empty loops:
> 
> 	while (foo())
> 		;
> 
> ---
> V2 adds the special case and requirement for --strict based on
> recommendations of Joe Perches.
> 
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index a3b9782..e711122 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3227,6 +3227,12 @@ sub process {
>  			 "Statements terminations use 1 semicolon\n" . $herecurr);
>  		}
>  
> +# check for whitespace before semicolon - not allowed at end-of-line
> +		if ($line =~ /\S+\s+;$/) {
> +		    CHK("SPACING",
> +			 "Whitespace before semicolon\n" . $herecurr);

Hey Eric.

This is still a suboptimal test because it should
allow optional spacing after the semicolon before
the EOL.

	if ($line =~ /\S\s+;\s*$/)

I still think it's not really necessary to
check for end of line.  It'd also be OK to
report spacing issues on code like:

	for (i = 0 ; i < 100 ; i++)
and
	case foo: x = 1 ; break;

So maybe the test should be

	if ($line =~ /\S\s+;/)

But this test emits a CHK on lines
that add a line with just a ; so that
needs a small update to

	if ($line =~ /^\+.*\S\s+;/)

Also the test should probably be adjacent
to all the other "SPACING" tests so maybe:

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index cb08290..aadcfba 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2461,6 +2461,13 @@ sub process {
 				     "space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
 			}
 		}
+
+# check for whitespace before a non-naked semicolon
+		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\S\s+;/) {
+			CHK("SPACING",
+			    "space prohibited before semicolon\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # Check operator spacing.
 		if (!($line=~/\#\s*include/)) {
 			my $ops = qr{