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SubjectRe: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix a number of COMPLEX_MACRO false positives
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On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 23:36 +0200, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> A simple search over the kernel souce displays a number of correctly
> defined multiline macro, which generally are used as an array element
> initializer:
>
> % find ../linux -type f | xargs grep -B1 -H '^[:space]*\[.*\\$'
>
> However checkpatch.pl unexpectedly complains about all these macro
> definitions:
>
> % ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types COMPLEX_MACRO -f include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
>
> ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
> +#define PERF_MAP_ALL_UNSUPPORTED \
> + [0 ... PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX - 1] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED
>
> The change intends to fix this type of false positives by flattening
> only array members and skipping array element designators.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index f2a1131..3882893 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -4526,7 +4526,7 @@ sub process {
> # Flatten any parentheses and braces
> while ($dstat =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/ ||
> $dstat =~ s/\{[^\{\}]*\}/1/ ||
> - $dstat =~ s/\[[^\[\]]*\]/1/)
> + $dstat =~ s/.\[[^\[\]]*\]/1/)

Perhaps the . before the [ might be a bit broad.

I'm not sure there's a great way to handle this.

Andy?

> {
> }
>
> @@ -4546,7 +4546,8 @@ sub process {
> union|
> struct|
> \.$Ident\s*=\s*|
> - ^\"|\"$
> + ^\"|\"$|
> + ^\[
> }x;
> #print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat> ctx<$ctx>\n";
> if ($dstat ne '' &&





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