[PATCH] kexec.c: workaround getline and fscanf to make it *libc agnostic. Tested against klibc and dietlibc.

Yuri Bushmelev jay4mail at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 04:26:40 EST 2009


Hello!
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:28:22PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > Yuri Bushmelev schrieb:
> > > That is form of 'early bug detection' of mistyped '=='.
> > > E.g. you can write by mistype
> > > 	if (p = NULL) {}
> > > but can't
> > > 	if (NULL = p) {}
> > > because you will get compiler error.
> >
> > I know that kind of argument. However, it makes code IMO quite
> > unreadable since it's uncommon at least in the kernel code. And that's
> > the coding style we follow in kexec.
> >
> > BTW: gcc warns about 'if (p = NULL)' anyways ...

Ok, np :)

> I agree with Bernhard, though Yuri's point is a good one.
> 
> This aside, is everyone happy with the patch?
> I'd like to merge it if possible.

Merge it please!

-- 
Yuri Bushmelev



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