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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] staging:android_pmem.h: Fixes the space and other formating issues pointed out by checkpatch.pl
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 05:29:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 14:54 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > It still complains about the following macros where parenthesis are
> > not needed.
> >
> > ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
> > #156: FILE: staging/android/pmem.c:156:
> > +#define PMEM_IS_FREE(id, index) !(pmem[id].bitmap[index].allocated)
> >
> > Let's just make the check look for an operator with a low
> > precedence.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Programming_languages
> >
> > Otherwise the submitters are going to change it to:
> >
> > #define PMEM_IS_FREE(id, index) (!(pmem[id].bitmap[index].allocated))
> >
> > That has two pairs of unneeded paranthesis and we run the risk of
> > reprogramming the kernel in lisp, by mistake.
>
> I think the outer parens are necessary.
> Imagine PMEM_IS_FREE(foo, bar).another_dereference


I don't believe that makes any sense does it, those are pointer
operations, and passing 0/1 to those is going to make the . very
unhappy. But that is why I am only proposing to do the three which are
non-sensicle on pointers.

-apw


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