Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staging:dgap :Compression of lines for immediate return | | From | Joe Perches <> | | Date | Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:39:24 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:04 +0530, Shraddha Barke wrote: > This patch compresses two lines into a single line if immediate return statement > is found. Also,remove variable rc as it is no longer needed. > It is done using tool Coccinelle. And semantic patch used for this is as follows: > > @@ > expression ret; > identifier f; > @@ > -ret = > +return > f(...); > -return ret;
This isn't an always safe or side-effect free semantic patch as there may be a cast lost by such a conversion.
int foo(void) { char i = 0xffffffff; return i; }
where i is now int not char
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