Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: trivial sparse warning in sched.c

Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-17T08:38:40Z

[Peter Zijlstra - Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:45:14PM +0100]
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| On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 00:27 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| > [Peter Zijlstra - Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:11:29PM +0100]
| > |
[...]
| >
| > Hi Peter,
| >
| > dont you find 'return (void)foo();' statement a bit strange (as it was in
| > original code)? ;) Am I wrong? /it's night here, so half a brain already
| > tuned off ;)/
|
| void foo(void);
|
| void bar(void)
| {
| return foo();
| }
|
| Maybe I'm just weird an twisted, but no, I don't find it odd. In my mind
| its consistent with how all other return types function.
|
| Not sure what the C std text says on the matter though.
|
|

well, i've an obscure feeling about that. From one side I do understand that
you're *absolutely right* but the second form of statement is more clear
methink. That is what I prefer personally. Anyway the form of writting
such a statement is taste of code author - so you choose ;)

- Cyrill -