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From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 2/2] fs/xfs: Correcting error-prone boolean-statement
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:18:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F78A67.1060007@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060901100745.P3186664@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>

Nathan Scott wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:52:51AM +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>  
>
>>From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
>>
>>Converting error-prone statement:
>>"if (var == B_FALSE)" into "if (!var)"
>>"if (var == B_TRUE)"  into "if (var)"
>>    
>>
>
>This is my preference too, rather than the local boolean usage which
>isn't used with any consistency... but:
>
>  
>
>>Compile-tested
>>    
>>
>
>Are you using XFS on your systems?  What is your strategy for getting this
>runtime tested going to be?  Or are you delegating that responsibility? :)
>  
>
Sorry, can't say that I do. So pretty please... ;)
Seriously, I can not find a state when this may fail (if not "if (var == 
TRUE)" happend to be correct for 'var' != 0 != 1, but that is just a bug 
waiting to happend).
But please correct me if I am wrong.

>cheers.
>  
>
cu


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 23:52 [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 2/2] fs/xfs: Correcting error-prone boolean-statement Richard Knutsson
2006-09-01  0:07 ` Nathan Scott
2006-09-01  1:18   ` Richard Knutsson [this message]
2006-09-01  1:16     ` Nathan Scott
2006-09-01  1:38       ` Richard Knutsson

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