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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 13:05:34 +0100 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote: > > But the condition doesn't line up with the code: > > Exactly. The condition not lining up with the following code helps > code helps separate the two. Sorry about that: I realised you were agreeing with me about 5s after I sent the message. > However there is the practical way to solve this if you have > a sufficiently large conditional, or the conditional appears > several times. That doesn't necessarily work - for instance if the condition has side effects on local variables (eg: postinc). OTOH, large complex conditions with side effects have to be abused with care and preferably avoided. goto is your friend:-) David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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