From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on comparisons to true and false
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:29:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365668975.1929.4.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130411081943.GA6772@mwanda>
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 11:19 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:14:15PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > It would be interesting to see how many people have historically screwed
> > up and used (!a) when they mean (a) and vice versa, versus spelling
> > it out longform. I'd be surprised if the results weren't skewed
> > in favour of the more verbose form.
>
> I see a the occasional reversed test in Smatch but normally these
> kind of bugs are detected with basic testing so they are rare.
I'd guess the most common error would be using
an int comparison when the value is not 0 or 1.
Non-zero is still "true" but isn't == true.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 3:17 [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on comparisons to true and false Joe Perches
2013-04-10 9:33 ` Andy Whitcroft
2013-04-10 11:27 ` Joe Perches
2013-04-10 12:41 ` Andy Whitcroft
2013-04-10 22:57 ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-11 1:07 ` Joe Perches
2013-04-11 2:14 ` Dave Jones
2013-04-11 3:47 ` Joe Perches
2013-04-11 8:19 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-04-11 8:29 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-04-11 11:56 ` Bjørn Mork
2013-04-11 14:25 ` Joe Perches
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