linux-kernel - Re: #pragma once?

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:50:57 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@...il.com>
Subject: Re: #pragma once?

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:33:49PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
 > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:47:07PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
 > > Does anyone have any objection to the use of "#pragma once" instead of
 > > the usual #ifndef-#define-...-#endif include guard?  GCC, LLVM/clang,
 > > and the latest Sparse all support either method just fine.  (I added
 > > support to Sparse myself.)  Both have equivalent performance.  "#pragma
 > > once" is simpler, and avoids the possibility of a typo in the defined
 > > guard symbol.
 > 
 > Does anybody know whether other static code analysis tools such as
 > Coverity can handle #pragma once?

Coverity should be fine. If it does break, I'm sure they'd fix it.

	Dave

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