linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test

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Message-ID: <1395230578.12633.21.camel@thorin>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:02:58 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
To:	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
Cc:	Julia.Lawall@...6.fr, Gilles.Muller@...6.fr, nicolas.palix@...g.fr,
	mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	bernat.ada@...il.com, elezegarcia@...il.com,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test

On Die, 2014-03-18 at 22:11 +0100, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> The Coccinelle script scripts/coccinelle/misc/memcpy-assign.cocci look
> for opportunities to replace a call to memcpy by a struct assignment.
> This patch removes memcpy-assign.cocci as it is not clear that this
> convention has an impact on the generated code.

Using struct assignment keeps the type check and is just for this reason
always preferable over memcpy().

Kind regards,
	Bernd
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Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at

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