Re: [PATCH] crypto: cavium: zip: Remove unnecessary parentheses

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Mar 30 2018 - 16:17:32 EST


On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 21:03 +0530, Varsha Rao wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:41 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 23:27, Varsha Rao wrote:
> > > This patch fixes the clang warning of extraneous parentheses, with the
> > > following coccinelle script.
> > >
> > > @@
> > > identifier i;
> > > constant c;
> > > @@
> > > (
> > > -((i == c))
> > > +i == c
> > > >
> > >
> > > -((i <= c))
> > > +i <= c
> >
> > Why just the "==" and "<=" cases?
> > Why not "<", ">" and ">=" too?
> >
> > Why not expression instead of constant?
>
> Initially I had the other cases too and used expression instead of
> constant. But the results included only "==" and "<=" cases with
> constant. Along with one false positive case.
hmm
Perhaps you should use something like this?
@@
identifier i;
constant c;
@@

-(
\(i == c\|i <= c\|i < c\|i >= c\|i > c\)
-)