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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers_check.pl: disallow extern's
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:32:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812311732.40076.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812311758.04516.arnd@arndb.de>

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On Wednesday 31 December 2008 11:58:03 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 27 December 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > +sub check_prototypes
> > +{
> > +	if ($line =~ m/^\s*extern\b/) {
> > +		printf STDERR "extern's make no sense in userspace\n";
> > +		$ret = 1;
> > +	}
> > +}
>
> Unfortunately, this way you can only detect prototypes with an explicit
> 'extern' in them, not the equivalent form with an implicit extern.
>
> Not sure if we can detect the other form reliably from perl.

yes, i already mentioned both of these issues.  that's why i suggested we 
start adding "extern" to all the headers (or at least the userspace ones).
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-27  7:43 [PATCH] headers_check.pl: disallow extern's Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27 18:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 18:54   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 19:21     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29 10:15     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29 12:00       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 19:23   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-31 16:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-31 22:32   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2009-01-02 23:59     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-03  0:05       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-03  0:09         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-03  1:20           ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-03  1:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-03  1:51 ` Nigel Cunningham

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