RE: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix unescaped left braces

[David Laight]

From: Joe Perches
> Sent: 05 January 2021 10:01
> 
> On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 15:05 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > Perl 5.22 onwards require that "A literal "{" should now be
> > escaped in a pattern".

Sounds like a good reason to never use perl :-)

> Not quite correct.
> 
> > checkpatch contains several literal "{". Fix such instances
> > by preceding them with a backslash.
> 
> Not all literal left braces need to be escaped.
> https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1191981
> 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ sub annotate_values {
> >  			print "ASSIGN($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
> >  			$type = 'N';
> >
> >
> > -		} elsif ($cur =~/^(;|{|})/) {
> > +		} elsif ($cur =~ /^(;|\{|\})/) {

isn't (;|{|}) much the same as [;{}] ??

	David

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