Re: [PATCH] scripts:checkpatch - Do not give error if static bool or global bool variables are assigned to false value.

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 06:39 +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
> The bool value false is not always to be 0.

By definition (7.16 Boolean type and values <stdbool.h>),
false is integer 0.

Setting a boolean variable to 0 is equivalent to
setting it to false.

What I think you mean is that a boolean variable can be
set to 0 when false might be more intelligible.

> So this patch will
> prevent for error if static bool or global bool are initialized
> with false value.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
>  # check for global initialisers.
> -		if ($line =~ /^\+(\s*$Type\sa*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+(\s*$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier))*\s*=\s*(0|NULL)\s*;/) {
>  			if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS",
>  				  "do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
>  				      $herecurr) &&

I think using false adds some clarity for the reader and
even if something were to be applied, the error message
should probably be "do not initialize globals to $2\n"

(choose the spelling of your choice for initialise/initialize)

The (0|NULL|false) regex could probably be expanded to
(0x0+|0|NULL|false) or that regex could be saved as a
$our zero_value and tested using that new variable.

[]
>  # check for static initialisers.
> -		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\bstatic\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\bstatic\s.*=\s*(0|NULL)\s*;/) {
>  			if (ERROR("INITIALISED_STATIC",
>  				  "do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL\n" .
>  				      $herecurr) &&

$1 here