Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:55:43 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Style Issues / Concerns |
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:33:55PM -0400, James Kosin wrote: > On 3/22/2010 4:13 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > James Kosin <jkosin@intcomgrp.com> writes: > > > >> Before everyone jumps in at once, this is a simple example that will > >> produce a compiler error about the misplaced else. However if there are > >> many if statements above this that may allow the else to be paired up > >> with it then the code will compile and there will be a serious and very > >> difficult bug in the code that will take days or months to find. > >> > > Modern editors with auto indent mode makes it actually very easy > > to find such bugs. > > > > Also checkpatch.pl checks for it now I believe. > > > Thanks for the speedy reply. > > Does this mean developers need to install X or some graphical > environment now to develop the kernel?
Modern was perhaps the wrong word. emacs, vim support that.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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