Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [Cocci] Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolinit.cocci: semantic patch for bool issues | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:05 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:55 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:51 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:44 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:45 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 18:11 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> > > > > Thanks Julia. It seems to work well. > > > I wonder though, why would we want to change if (a == true) with if (a) > > > etc? Julia did not provide the explanation in the commit message but > > > referred to you and Rusty in the semantic patch. > > > > Testing booleans against specific values is poor form. > > booleans should be tested or !tested. > > OK, so this is about taste, I thought there is a more serious reason.
But let me be clear - I am all for having this spatch in the kernel tree - it is good for code hygiene.
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