From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:29:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40503F6D.8010009@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1x7jxrzpbt.fsf@kth.se>
Hi Måns.
>>>The warning should be there whether there are parenthesis or not,
>>>and it should state that you should have an explicit inequality
>>>expression. So if you have
>>> if (a = b) ...
>>>and you really _mean_ that, then the way to write it sanely is to
>>>just write it as
>>> if ((a = b) != 0)
>>> ...
>>>which makes it much clearer what you're actually doing.
>>
>>Or actually change it to
>>
>>a = b;
>>if (a)
>
> That doesn't work with while().
>
True. Didn't think of that but then the example used
was an if().
// Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-11 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-10 6:16 (0 == foo), rather than (foo == 0) Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)
2004-03-10 10:34 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-03-10 18:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-10 18:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-10 18:50 ` [OT] " David Ford
2004-03-10 19:06 ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-10 19:26 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 21:26 ` Roland Dreier
2004-03-10 22:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-03-10 19:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-10 19:31 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 23:20 ` Frank v Waveren
2004-03-10 23:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 2:14 ` David Ford
2004-03-11 15:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-10 23:10 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-10 21:29 ` viro
2004-03-10 22:20 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 22:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-11 0:33 ` Micha Feigin
2004-03-11 10:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-03-10 22:49 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-10 23:14 ` David Ford
2004-03-10 23:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-10 23:47 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-10 21:34 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-03-10 23:00 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 0:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-11 2:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-11 3:08 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 3:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-11 4:40 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 9:48 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-11 10:29 ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2004-03-11 15:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-11 17:42 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-11 23:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-03-11 6:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-03-11 7:36 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-11 15:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-11 15:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-11 15:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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2004-03-11 4:04 Godbole, Amarendra (GE Consumer & Industrial)
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2004-03-11 16:41 ` Chip Salzenberg
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2004-03-11 23:57 ` Peter Williams
2004-03-12 1:51 ` Chris Johns
2004-03-12 12:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
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