Re: Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl?

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:31:22PM -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> Perhaps I'm loosing my magic regex pixie dust, but the dot '.' char
> in the pattern "/^.#" in the following lines looks wrong to me, as if
> one were trying to match pre-processor directives that were set in by
> one character:

This is because we always are dealing with diff lines, not real lines.
So there is always a ' ', '+', or '-' in character 0 of the line (within
a diff hunk).  In some tests we may be looking at either context ' '
or new lines '+' and so its handy to use '.' over '[ \+]', and I have
maintained that model throughout the other tests.

> The command:
> 
> 	grep '^[^#].*\/\^\.#' scripts/checkpatch.pl
> 
> displays:
> 
>         if ($res =~ /^.#\s*include\s+\<(.*)\>/) {
>         } elsif ($res =~ /^.#\s*(?:error|warning)\s+(.*)\b/) {
>                 if ($line =~ /(.*)\b((?:if|while|for|switch)\s*\(|do\b|else\b)/ && $line !~ /^.#/) {
>                 if ($line =~ /^.#\s*if\s+0\b/) {
>                 if ($line =~ /^.#\s*(ifdef|ifndef|elif)\s\s+/) {
>                     $line !~ /^.#\s*if\b.*\bNR_CPUS\b/ &&
>                     $line !~ /^.#\s*define\b.*\bNR_CPUS\b/ &&
> 

-apw