linux-kernel - Re: diffutils: C labels misdetected as functions

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Message-ID: <46A3AD07.1070504@simon.arlott.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:16:23 +0100
From:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
To:	Paul Eggert <eggert@...UCLA.EDU>
CC:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Denis Cheng <crquan@...il.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	git@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: diffutils: C labels misdetected as functions

On 22/07/07 19:38, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu> writes:
> 
>> The patch below stops diffutils treating C labels starting in column 1 as function names.
> 
> That patch alone wouldn't suffice, since -p is documented as implying
> -F '^[[:alpha:]$_]'.  If the behavior changes, we'd also have to
> change the documentation to match.

Ok.

> I'm not sure the change is a good idea.  It would complicate the
> documentation and therefore the user interface, without that much

Complicated documentation means a bug shouldn't be fixed?

> benefit.  And it wouldn't suffice in general, since it would still
> mishandle labels followed by comments or by white space.

Yes, the regexp needs changing further to ignore comments...

"[[:alpha:]$_][^:]*$" perhaps? Although that ignores functions with
comments on the same line containing a :.

> Also, for long C functions some people might rather see a top-level
> (unindented) label highlighted than the function name highlighted, so
> they might prefer the current behavior.

"-p  --show-c-function  Show which C function each change is in."

It's not "--show-c-function-or-label".

> Anyway, to work around your problem without changing "diff", you can
> use "diff -u -F '^[[:alpha:]$_](|.*[^:])$'" instead of "diff -u -p".

Perhaps git could do this (or similar) as a workaround? (Cc:ed)

> Or you can put a single space before the labels in question: they'll
> still stand out plenty.

The code should definitely not need to be modified to work around a
diff bug.

-- 
Simon Arlott
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