Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Fix wrong curly bracket position reporting

[Jean-Baptiste Theou <jtheou@adeneo-embedded.us>]

Hi Joe,

Looks good to me, it fix this issue and for sure more global.

Regards,

Jean-Baptiste
On 12/17/2013 09:39 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:59 -0800, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
>> This patch fixes wrong curly bracket position reporting when function
>> declarations have only one void argument.
>>
>> Missing error (ERROR: space required before the open brace '{') on this
>> situation :
>>
>> int foo(void){
>> 	...
>> }
> That's true for any declaration with { on the same line.
>
> Perhaps this would be better:
> ---
>   scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 8f3aecd..c4dbb8a 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2784,7 +2784,8 @@ sub process {
>   
>   # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while,
>   # or if closed on same line
> -		if (($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\).*\s{/) and
> +		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
> +		    ($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*{\s*$/) &&
>   		    !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s{/) and !($line=~/}/)) {
>   			ERROR("OPEN_BRACE",
>   			      "open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line\n" . $herecurr);
> @@ -3159,7 +3160,9 @@ sub process {
>   ## 		}
>   
>   #need space before brace following if, while, etc
> -		if (($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) ||
> +		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
> +		    ($line !~ /$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*{\s*$/) &&
> +		    ($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) ||
>   		    $line =~ /do{/) {
>   			if (ERROR("SPACING",
>   				  "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) &&
>
>