linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:10:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined
 values/expressions

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Phil Carmody wrote:

> All these are instances of
>   #define NAME value;
> or
>   #define NAME(params_opt) value;
> 
> These of course fail to build when used in contexts like
>   if(foo $OP NAME)
>   while(bar $OP NAME)
> and may silently generate the wrong code in contexts such as
>   foo = NAME + 1;    /* foo = value; + 1; */
>   bar = NAME - 1;    /* bar = value; - 1; */
>   baz = NAME & quux; /* baz = value; & quux; */
>
> Reported on comp.lang.c,
> Message-ID: <ab0d55fe-25e5-482b-811e-c475aa6065c3@...g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
> Initial analysis of the dangers provided by Keith Thompson in that thread.
> 
> There are many more instances of more complicated macros having unnecessary
> trailing semicolons, but this pile seems to be all of the cases of simple
> values suffering from the problem. (Thus things that are likely to be found
> in one of the contexts above, more complicated ones aren't.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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