Re: Possible false positive in checkpatch

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:

> ERROR: space prohibited after that '*' (ctx:BxW)


> Certainly this is a rather uncommon code construction, but similar
> ones might occur elsewhere.  To my eyes,
>
> 	(* (type *) ptr)
>
> looks better than
>
> 	(*(type *) ptr)
>
> or
>
> 	(*(type *)ptr)
>
> or even
>
> 	(*(type*)ptr)
>
> but of course this is a matter of opinion.  Is there any strong feeling 
> about this in the kernel community?

I think checkpatch already has gone way too far with this (and not
only this).

"type *var" vs "type* var" - sure, the latter is worse and provokes
"type* var1, var2", but anything else is IMHO only annoying and,
actually, not important WRT readability at all.

For example I prefer "type* func()" - as it's a function returning
"a pointer to type" and not "a pointer to a function returning type"
(which "type *func()" may suggest). Yes, func is not a pointer, so why
write "*" next to it?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa