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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 3/5] ftrace trace event add missing semicolumn
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:37:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20754.1294209428@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:10:18 +0100." <20110105031016.GI2911@nowhere>

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:10:18 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker said:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:01:33PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Can DEFINE_EVENT ever be sensibly used in a context where the additional ; will
> > cause an issue (for instance, a hypothetical array initialization like:
> >
> > static struct events[] = {DEFINE_EVENT(..), DEFINE_EVENT(...) }

> You can't do the above as DEFINE_EVENT() do more than just creating a structure.
> It can define functions and so.
>
> Plus it doesn't behave the same whether CREATE_TRACE_POINTS is defined or not:
> it can either define or declare the functions and structures.
>
> > or other places we usually do the 'do { X } while (0)' trick to make the code legal?
>
> I just can't figure out a sane case.

OK..  I was wondering if there was a corner case where we had to resolve the
one versus two semicolon issue in a specific way to guarantee syntactic
correctness, but it looks like this one gets to fight it out on taste/style
grounds...


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-05  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04 23:16 [RFC patch 0/5] Trace event fixes and cleanups Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-04 23:16 ` [RFC patch 1/5] trace event block fix unassigned field Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05 15:09   ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-05 19:34     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05 19:57       ` Jeff Moyer
2011-01-04 23:16 ` [RFC patch 2/5] trace event skb " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-04 23:16 ` [RFC patch 3/5] ftrace trace event add missing semicolumn Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05  0:00   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-05  0:18     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05  2:08       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-05  2:35         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05  2:58           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-05 13:52             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05 15:02               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-05 19:56                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05 23:40                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-05 23:57                     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-01-06 18:08                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05  3:01         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-01-05  3:10           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-01-05  6:37             ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2011-01-05 13:56               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-04 23:16 ` [RFC patch 4/5] tracepoint trace event add missing comma Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-04 23:16 ` [RFC patch 5/5] trace event sched: remove TP_perf_assign Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-05  9:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 13:28     ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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