Re: [Cocci] Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolinit.cocci:semantic patch for bool issues

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 13:53:34 EST


On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:51 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:44 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:45 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 18:11 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> > > Thanks Julia. It seems to work well.
> > I wonder though, why would we want to change if (a == true) with if (a)
> > etc? Julia did not provide the explanation in the commit message but
> > referred to you and Rusty in the semantic patch.
>
> Testing booleans against specific values is poor form.
> booleans should be tested or !tested.

OK, so this is about taste, I thought there is a more serious reason.

> If you are going to submit these patches,
> I suggest you break them out by 2nd level
> directory.

No, I was just trying to help Julia a bit and let her spend more time
writing good spatches. I am not going to sumbit patches, sorry.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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