Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix assignment of boolean variables

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Dec 03 2018 - 04:21:14 EST




On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:35:00AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 12:37:01PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 04:31:49PM +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
> > > > Fix the following warnings reported by coccinelle:
> > > >
> > > > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:703:6-10: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
>
> Not to mention that WARN is gramatically incorrect. We're not assigning
> 'bool' to 0/1 but the other way around.
>
> What crap..
>
> > So I strongly disagree with this. Anybody that has trouble with 0/1 vs
> > false/true needs to stay the heck away from C.
> >
> > I would suggest we delete that stupid coccinelle scripts that generates
> > these pointless warns.

Personally, I would prefer that assignments involving boolean variables
use true or false. It seems more readable. Potentially better for tools
as well. But if the community really prefers 0 and 1, then the test can
be deleted.

julia