linux-kernel - Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH v4 12/12] tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip

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Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:20:47 -0200
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH v4 12/12] tree-wide: convert open
 calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
> remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
> evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
> "a char equals zero is never a space".

You didn't document in isspace() that it must return false for NUL.  Please
do that before you remove any such checks.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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