[PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Sep 29 09:34:02 EDT 2020


On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 14:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The times where commas are used deliberately to replace curly braces are
> > just evil.  Either way the code is cleaner with semi-colons.
> 
> I also found exaamples like the following to be particularly unforunate:
> 
>                                 fprintf(stderr,
>                                         "page_nr %lu wrong count %Lu %Lu\n",
>                                        page_nr, count,
>                                        count_verify[page_nr]), exit(1);
> 
> The exit is very hard to see, unless you know to look for it.

I sent that patch last month.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11734877/

It's still not applied.






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