Re: [PATCH] Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Wed Mar 19 2014 - 08:25:48 EST


On Die, 2014-03-18 at 22:11 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> The Coccinelle script scripts/coccinelle/misc/memcpy-assign.cocci look
> for opportunities to replace a call to memcpy by a struct assignment.
> This patch removes memcpy-assign.cocci as it is not clear that this
> convention has an impact on the generated code.

Using struct assignment keeps the type check and is just for this reason
always preferable over memcpy().

Kind regards,
Bernd
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