From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible code defects: macros and precedence
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 02:31:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474191110.1954.16.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1609180702060.3361@hadrien>
On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 07:09 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I also submitted a similar checkpatch addition that looks
> > for non-comma operators used macro arguments in function
> > definitions.
> >
> > The checkpatch test has the same weakness as the coccinelle
> > test. It doesn't check uses, just the macro definition.
> I wonder if it is really a weakness? Does anyone care if a macro
> definition has more parentheses than what is necessary for the current
> usage
An excess of parentheses can hurt readability a little.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-18 9:32 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
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 [this message]
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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