Re: coccinelle: bool if (foo) return true; else return false;

[Julia Lawall]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Joe Perches wrote:

> There's ~150 of these in the kernel.
> 
> Maybe there's use for this conversion to be added
> to scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolreturn.cocci or in
> a separate file.
> 
> $ cat booltruefalse.cocci
> @@
> identifier fn;
> expression e;
> typedef bool;
> symbol true;
> symbol false;
> @@
> 
> bool fn ( ... )
> {
> <...
> -	if (e) return true; else return false;
> +	return e;
> ...>
> }
> 
> @@
> identifier fn;
> expression e;
> @@
> 
> bool fn ( ... )
> {
> <...
> -	if (e) return false; else return true;
> +	return !e;
> ...>
> }

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will take care of it shortly.

julia