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Message-ID: <CAKMK7uH2zUXCQw3DupDHHYJDL4WW_c_8bFDTA7TJs86CZsNNUw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:06:45 +0200
From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] sched: use for_each_if in topology.h
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 05:52:04PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> for_each_something(foo)
>> if (foo->bla)
>> call_bla(foo);
>> else
>> call_default(foo);
>>
>> Totally contrived, but this complains. Liberally sprinkling {} also shuts
>> up the compiler, but it's a bit confusing given that a plain for {;;} is
>> totally fine. And it's confusing since at first glance the compiler
>> complaining about nested if and ambigous else doesn't make sense since
>> clearly there's only 1 if there.
>
> Ah, so the pattern the compiler tries to warn about is:
>
> if (foo)
> if (bar)
> /* stmts1 */
> else
> /* stmts2 *
>
> Because it might not be immediately obvious with which if the else goes.
> Which is fair enough I suppose.
Yup. I'll augment the commit message of patch 1 to include this as
example, and why it's confusing in context of a for_each_foo macro
containing an if().
> OK, ACK.
Thanks, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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