Re: CodingStyle: provide good example

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 18:51:24 EST


On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:43:43 +0100
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> if (!buffer) is actually prefered style, so lets use it in example.
>
> Pavel
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> index 6caa146..9bb2d8a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> @@ -406,7 +415,7 @@ int fun(int a)
> int result = 0;
> char *buffer = kmalloc(SIZE);
>
> - if (buffer == NULL)
> + if (!buffer)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> if (condition1) {

I tend to avoid preferring one over the other unless the extra seven
columns is needed to prevent wraparound nasties.
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