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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/9] soc: samsung: Add Exynos Adaptive Supply Voltage driver
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 14:48, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/08/2019 13:31, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 14:07, Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com> wrote:
> >>>> +static unsigned int exynos5422_asv_parse_table(struct exynos_asv *asv,
> >>>> + unsigned int pkg_id)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + return (pkg_id >> EXYNOS5422_TABLE_OFFSET) & EXYNOS5422_TABLE_MASK;
> >>>> +}
> >>>> +
> >>>> +static bool exynos5422_asv_parse_bin2(struct exynos_asv *asv,
> >>>> + unsigned int pkg_id)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + return (pkg_id >> EXYNOS5422_BIN2_OFFSET) & EXYNOS5422_BIN2_MASK;
> >>>
> >>> return !!() for converting to boolean.
> >>
> >> I'm not convinced it is needed, the return type of the function is bool
> >> and value of the expression will be implicitly converted to that type.
> >> Is there any compiler warning related to that?
> >
> > Yeah, but bool is int so there will be no implicit conversion... I
> > guess it is a convention. In theory !! is the proper conversion to
> > bool but if bool==int then it's essentially conversion to 1. I am not
> > sure what's the benefit, maybe for some wrong code which would do
> > comparisons on result like if (exynos5422_asv_parse_bin2() == TRUE)...
>
> Not so - since we use "-std=gnu89", we have C99-like _Bool, which our
> bool is a typedef of. Conversions, either implicit or explicit, are
> well-defined:
>
> "6.3.1.2 Boolean type
>
> When any scalar value is converted to _Bool, the result is 0 if the
> value compares equal
> to 0; otherwise, the result is 1."
>
> This is even called out in Documentation/process/coding-style.rst:
>
> "When using bool types the !! construction is not needed, which
> eliminates a class of bugs."

Good point, thanks!

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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