linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up recordmcount.c to use Linux style comparisons

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Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:52:55 -0300
From:	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>
To:	John Reiser <jreiser@...wagon.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/11] ftrace/trivial: Clean up recordmcount.c to use
 Linux style comparisons

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:09 PM, John Reiser <jreiser@...wagon.com> wrote:
> I consider "0==strcmp(" to be an idiom.  Too often "strcmp(...) == 0"
> overflows my mental stack because of the typographic width of the operands
> in the source code.  If you still object in this case then please consider
> using something like:
>        #define strequ(a,b) (strcmp((a), (b)) == 0)
> or
>        static int strequ(char const *a, char const *b)
>        {
>                return strcmp(a, b) == 0;
>        }
> which names the idiom.
>

Maybe str_eq? Or even just streq? And also just !strcmp(a,b).
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