Re: latest checkpatch

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
>
>   
>>> it's perfectly legitimate, in fact more robust. So if checkpatch.pl 
>>> wants to make any noise about such constructs it should warn about 
>>> the _lack_ of curly braces in every multi-line condition block 
>>> _except_ the only safe single-line statement:
>>>
>>> 	if (x)
>>> 		y();
>>>       
>> Indeed.  We should probabally do more on the indentation checks in
>> general.  The current direct check for:
>>
>> 	if (foo);
>> 		bar();
>>
>> Could probabally be generalised to look for this kind of error:
>>
>> 	if (foo)
>> 		bar();
>> 		baz();
>> 	one();
>>     
>
> detecting that would be awesome - it's often the sign of a real bug 
> because the intent is often to have bar() and baz() in the conditional 
> block.
>
>   

This is more useful operating on an entire file, so the script can see
all the context.

A 'gcc -Windentation-contradicts-codeflow -Werror' would be nice.


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