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SubjectRe: [OT] Style Issues / Concerns
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

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