Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:27:52 -0500 | From | jschopp <> | Subject | Re: Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns. |
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> > > + WARN("No need to cast return value.\n"); > > > > Could the warning be more descriptive? This describes what, but it should also describe > > why; after all if somebody made this error they may not know they why. > > I'm open to suggestions..
How about
WARN("No need to cast return value, it is unnecessary and can hide real bugs. See http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html for more details\n"); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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