Re: [PATCH 3/5] tools lib traceevent: use else-if cascade, not separate ifs

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Mar 18 2014 - 09:11:25 EST


Em Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 05:02:09PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:26:36 -0400, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > When token cannot be more than one value, it seems wasteful to go
> > through all the strcmp() calls. Use an else-if cascade instead.
>
> I think the end result will be same since it returns from inside the
> block, right?

Exactly :-)

We could have it changed to something like:

if (strcmp()) {
ret = bla();
goto out_free_token;
}
.
.
.
out_free_token:
free_token(token);
return ret;


> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
> >
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 12 ++++--------
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> > index 42bc571..7a8d9ae 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> > @@ -2770,21 +2770,17 @@ process_function(struct event_format *event, struct print_arg *arg,
> > free_token(token);
> > is_flag_field = 1;
> > return process_flags(event, arg, tok);
> > - }
> > - if (strcmp(token, "__print_symbolic") == 0) {
> > + } else if (strcmp(token, "__print_symbolic") == 0) {
> > free_token(token);
> > is_symbolic_field = 1;
> > return process_symbols(event, arg, tok);
> > - }
> > - if (strcmp(token, "__print_hex") == 0) {
> > + } else if (strcmp(token, "__print_hex") == 0) {
> > free_token(token);
> > return process_hex(event, arg, tok);
> > - }
> > - if (strcmp(token, "__get_str") == 0) {
> > + } else if (strcmp(token, "__get_str") == 0) {
> > free_token(token);
> > return process_str(event, arg, tok);
> > - }
> > - if (strcmp(token, "__get_dynamic_array") == 0) {
> > + } else if (strcmp(token, "__get_dynamic_array") == 0) {
> > free_token(token);
> > return process_dynamic_array(event, arg, tok);
> > }
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