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Message-ID: <20150507194232.GA16501@mwanda>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 22:42:33 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: complain about GW-BASIC style label names
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 06:47:51AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > +#avoid GW-BASIC style label names
> > + if ($line=~/^\+\s*(err|error|fail|out)[0-9]+:/) {
>
> Labels aren't always only lower case.
Fair enough. I'll test again with:
if ($line=~/^\+\s*(err|error|fail|out)[0-9]+:/i) {
>
> This may have false positives with ?: uses like
> a = foo ?
> err1:err2;
>
There are no false positives. :)
$ grep -A2 "bad label name" errs | grep ^+ | cut -b 2- | perl -ne 's/( |\t)//g; print' | cut -d : -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | less
249 err1
209 err2
168 out1
150 out2
149 fail1
132 fail2
83 fail3
83 err3
78 err0
73 out3
70 error1
67 error2
48 fail0
43 err4
42 error0
33 error3
31 out4
29 fail4
23 out0
22 err5
21 error4
14 fail5
12 out5
11 error5
9 err6
8 out6
7 error6
6 out7
6 fail6
5 out8
5 err7
3 error7
2 out9
2 error9
2 error8
2 err8
2 err05
1 out10
1 fail9
1 fail8
1 fail7
1 error10
1 err06
1 err04
1 err03
1 err01
> > + ir (WARN("LABEL_NAME",
> > + "bad label name\n" . $herecurr) &&
> > + $fix) {
> > + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
> > + s/^(.)\s+/$1/;
> > + }
> > + }
>
> There already is a $fix option in the INDENTED_LABEL test
> above this one and isn't needed or wanted here.
>
To be honest, I'm crap at Perl. Give me something to cut and paste?
> It may be better to use a message like:
> "Prefer functionally descriptive label naming (ie: label<why>:)\n"
>
These things are always the trickiest bit. I think of why as the goto
location and not the label location.
WARNING: Prefer a more descriptive label. What does the label do?\n
It's also a bit crap because labels don't do anything.
regards,
dan carpenter
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