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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
To: "hal.rosenstock@gmail.com" <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
	"mnghuan@gmail.com" <mnghuan@gmail.com>,
	"dledford@redhat.com" <dledford@redhat.com>,
	"sean.hefty@intel.com" <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ib_srp: Let compiler ignore the useless debug code
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:16:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1487952911.2575.1.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170224084451.42117-1-mnghuan@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 16:44 +0800, Minfei Huang wrote:
> "if (0)" is used to make this block of debug code not be executed. There
> is a more elegant way to let compiler ignore this code, using
> "#if 0 .. #endif" instead.
> 
> Although it may be optimised by some compilers with specified parameter,
> just for readable.

#if 0 / #endif prevents the compiler from checking the syntax of the code.
Such code tends to grow syntax errors. So I'm not sure this patch is an
improvement.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-24 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-24  8:44 [PATCH] ib_srp: Let compiler ignore the useless debug code Minfei Huang
2017-02-24 16:16 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1487952911.2575.1.camel-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-03-05  8:22     ` Leon Romanovsky

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