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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a --strict test for macro argument reuse and precedence
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:42:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473000163.5018.21.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ef3db05b4021f41d313e265f4c9ebd259c808ee.1472940911.git.joe@perches.com>

On Sat, 2016-09-03 at 15:20 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Add a test for reuse of macro arguments to highlight any possible
> side-effects from this reuse.
> 
> Avoid this check on token name pasting and when the
> argument is used in a typeof or a __builtin.
> 
> Add a test for macro arguents that have leading or trailing operators
> where the argument isn't parenthesized to avoid possible precedence
> issues.
> 
> These tests are noisy so make them --strict.

This should have been RFC.  Please do not apply this.

These tests are not just noisy, some false positives it
reports are just silly.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-04 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-03 18:35 Possible code defects: macros and precedence Joe Perches
2016-09-03 20:18 ` Dan Carpenter
2016-09-03 22:20   ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a --strict test for macro argument reuse " Joe Perches
2016-09-04 14:42     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-09-04 10:10 ` Possible code defects: macros " Julia Lawall
2016-09-04 15:06   ` Joe Perches
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.10.1609172221110.3124@hadrien>
2016-09-17 21:27       ` Joe Perches
2016-09-18  5:09         ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-18  9:31           ` Joe Perches
2016-09-20 13:14             ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-20 17:07               ` Joe Perches
2016-09-20 18:03                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-20 23:47               ` Joe Perches
2016-09-21  5:04                 ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-17 21:57       ` Joe Perches
2016-09-18  4:57         ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-18  9:27           ` Joe Perches

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