[PATCH] checkpatch: Improve TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT test message

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jan 18 2021 - 12:20:12 EST


Improve the TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT test by showing the suggested
conversion for various type of uses like (unsigned int)1 to 1U.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Douglas Gilbert sent me a private email (and in that email said he
'loves to hate checkpatch' ;) complaining that checkpatch warned on the
use of the cast of '(unsigned int)1' so make it more obvious why the
message is emitted by always showing the suggested conversion.

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 20 ++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 016115a62a9f..4f8494527139 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6527,18 +6527,18 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /(\(\s*$C90_int_types\s*\)\s*)($Constant)\b/) {
my $cast = $1;
my $const = $2;
+ my $suffix = "";
+ my $newconst = $const;
+ $newconst =~ s/${Int_type}$//;
+ $suffix .= 'U' if ($cast =~ /\bunsigned\b/);
+ if ($cast =~ /\blong\s+long\b/) {
+ $suffix .= 'LL';
+ } elsif ($cast =~ /\blong\b/) {
+ $suffix .= 'L';
+ }
if (WARN("TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT",
- "Unnecessary typecast of c90 int constant\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ "Unnecessary typecast of c90 int constant - '$cast$const' could be '$const$suffix'\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
- my $suffix = "";
- my $newconst = $const;
- $newconst =~ s/${Int_type}$//;
- $suffix .= 'U' if ($cast =~ /\bunsigned\b/);
- if ($cast =~ /\blong\s+long\b/) {
- $suffix .= 'LL';
- } elsif ($cast =~ /\blong\b/) {
- $suffix .= 'L';
- }
$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\Q$cast\E$const\b/$newconst$suffix/;
}
}