Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't complain on _Static_assert and _Generic use

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 16:18 +0100, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
> Improve CamelCase recognition logic to avoid reporting on _Static_assert()
> and _Generic() use.
> 
> Other C keywords, such as _Bool, are intentionally omitted, as those
> should be rather avoided in new source code.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -5839,6 +5839,8 @@ sub process {
>  #CamelCase
>  			if ($var !~ /^$Constant$/ &&
>  			    $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
> +#Ignore C keywords
> +			    $var !~ /_Static_assert|_Generic/ &&

You'll need

			    $var != /^(?:_Static_assert|_Generic)$/ &&

to avoid words that contain either


>  #Ignore some autogenerated defines and enum values
>  			    $var !~ /^(?:[A-Z]+_){1,5}[A-Z]{1,3}[a-z]/ &&
>  #Ignore Page<foo> variants