Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751893AbYL2Ofr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:35:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750980AbYL2Off (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:35:35 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:3073 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750811AbYL2Ofe (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:35:34 -0500 Message-ID: <154e089b0812290635o5792af25jd26fa184a02dc7af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:35:31 +0100 From: "Hannes Eder" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/27] drivers/net: fix sparse warnings: make do-while a compound statement Cc: "Krzysztof Halasa" , "Harvey Harrison" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon_L=F8vdal?=" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081222191259.11807.53190.stgit@vmbox.hanneseder.net> <20081222191507.11807.50794.stgit@vmbox.hanneseder.net> <1230053186.1447.9.camel@brick> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5660 Lines: 166 On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> >> So is a case like >> do >> x; >> while (y); >> It can't be made more clear with brackets. > > Oh yes it can. People look at that, and it's so uncommon that they > literally believe it is a mis-indent. > > [snip] > >> kmalloc(sizeof i) just doesn't look good, the operator looks like >> a variable name. > > And I agree with you. "sizeof i" doesn't look good. It's uncommon, and > doesn't match peoples expectations. > >> But there is this return statement. Some people tend to write >> return (x); I simply write return x; > > I do to. And it's the common thing to do, and only totally confused people > think that 'return' is a somehow remotely like a "function" of its > arguments (the way 'sizeof' is - sizeof _is_ a function of its arguments, > albeit a very rare one). > >> It's clear, and so is a simple do-while. > > No. "return x;" is clear because it's the common thing, which means that > peopel are good at reading it. I got curious and conducted a little experiment, here is the outcome for the linux-2.6 kernel tree: hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ find . -name "*.[ch]" -print0 | xargs -0 cat | ../sparse/cstats - stats for '-': do's: 8092, non compound: 79 ( 1.0%) sizeof's: 51216, without parenthesis: 1543 ( 3.0%) return's: 286167, with parenthesis: 13552 ( 4.7%) 'cstats' is a little program I wrote using the sparse library, see below. The value for "return's with parenthesis" is a bit of an estimation, as 'cstats' operates only at the token level, so "return (x) ? y : z;" counts as "return with parenthesis". some sanity checks, to ensure the magnitudes are right: hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep -w do -- *.[ch] | wc -l 20599 hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep '\bdo[ \t]*{' -- *.[ch] | wc -l 7805 I assume 'do' is used frequently in comments: hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep '\*.*\bdo\b' -- *.[ch] | wc -l 11358 hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep '^[ \t]*do$' -- *.[ch] | wc -l 34 hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep -w sizeof -- *.[ch] | wc -l 49631 constructs like sizeof(array)/sizeof(array[0]) or common: hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep 'sizeof.*sizeof' -- *.[ch] | wc -l 1827 hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep '\bsizeof [^(]' -- *.[ch] | wc -l 1534 hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep -w return -- *.[ch] | wc -l 295304 hannes@vmbox:~/linux-2.6$ git grep '\breturn (' -- *.[ch] | wc -l 11067 Best, Hannes #include #include #include #include #include #include "token.h" #include "parse.h" int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct string_list *filelist = NULL; char *filename; sparse_initialize(argc, argv, &filelist); FOR_EACH_PTR_NOTAG(filelist, filename) { int fd; struct token *token; int do_stats = 0; int do_stats_nc = 0; int sizeof_exprs = 0; int sizeof_exprs_np = 0; int return_stats = 0; int return_stats_wp = 0; if (strcmp(filename, "-") == 0) { fd = 0; } else { fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) die("No such file: %s", filename); } // Tokenize the input stream token = tokenize(filename, fd, NULL, includepath); close(fd); for ( ; !eof_token(token); token = token->next) { if (token_type(token) == TOKEN_IDENT) { if (token->ident == &do_ident) { do_stats++; if (!match_op(token->next, '{')) do_stats_nc++; } else if (token->ident == &sizeof_ident) { sizeof_exprs++; if (!match_op(token->next, '(')) sizeof_exprs_np++; } else if (token->ident == &return_ident) { return_stats++; if (match_op(token->next, '(')) return_stats_wp++; } } } printf("stats for '%s':\n", filename); printf(" do's: %8d, non compound: %8d (%5.1f%%)\n", do_stats, do_stats_nc, 100.0 * do_stats_nc / (do_stats?:1) ); printf(" sizeof's: %8d, without parenthesis: %8d (%5.1f%%)\n", sizeof_exprs, sizeof_exprs_np, 100.0 * sizeof_exprs_np / (sizeof_exprs?:1) ); printf(" return's: %8d, with parenthesis: %8d (%5.1f%%)\n", return_stats, return_stats_wp, 100.0 * return_stats_wp / (return_stats?:1) ); } END_FOR_EACH_PTR_NOTAG(filename); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/