Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wcd934x: Remove some unnecessary NULL checks

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Feb 04 2020 - 05:00:44 EST


On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 11:01:44PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns:
>
> ../sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c:1886:11: warning: address of array
> 'wcd->rx_chs' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
> if (wcd->rx_chs) {
> ~~ ~~~~~^~~~~~
> ../sound/soc/codecs/wcd934x.c:1894:11: warning: address of array
> 'wcd->tx_chs' will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
> if (wcd->tx_chs) {
> ~~ ~~~~~^~~~~~
> 2 warnings generated.
>
> Arrays that are in the middle of a struct are never NULL so they don't
> need a check like this.

I'm not convincd this is a sensible warning, at the use site a
pointer to an array in a struct looks identical to an array
embedded in the struct so it's not such a bad idea to check and
refactoring of the struct could easily introduce problems.

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