From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: 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: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:57:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130410155751.7ecc6738d616fb8771991ce1@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365563834.27174.12.camel@joe-AO722>
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:17:14 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> Comparisons of A to true and false are better written
> as A and !A.
>
> Bleat a message on use.
hm. I'm counting around 1,100 instances of "== true" and "== false".
That's a lot of people to shout at. Is it really worthwhile?
"foo==true" is a bit of a waste of space but I can't say that I find it
terribly offensive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 22:57 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 [this message]
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
2013-04-11 11:56 ` Bjørn Mork
2013-04-11 14:25 ` Joe Perches
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