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From: Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz>
To: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] check for identical exprs on LHS and RHS of '&&'
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:07:13 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312967235-23817-1-git-send-email-chrisf@ijw.co.nz> (raw)

Hi, I've started working on a new check for sparse to pick up a common 
error -- identical expressions appearing on both sides of some binary
operators.

This initially supports '&&', and incompletely -- but the plan is to
check instances of '!=', '==' and '||' the same way.

The check relies on recursively walking the ->left and ->right expressions, 
looking for differences. The implementation is a little verbose, but can 
be shared between all the operators.

What I'd like to know is:

* Do people consider this a worthwhile check to make?
* Am I "doing it right" with the expression walking?
* Are there other cases which people would be interested in?

Cheers

-- Chris


             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-10  9:07 Chris Forbes [this message]
2011-08-10  9:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] add test case for identical exprs on LHS and RHS of '&&' operator Chris Forbes
2011-08-10  9:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] initial work on check for identical exprs on both sides of '&&'; needs more Chris Forbes
2011-08-10 17:44 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] check for identical exprs on LHS and RHS of '&&' Josh Triplett
2011-08-10 17:46   ` Al Viro
2011-08-12 19:34     ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-12 19:16 ` Christopher Li

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