Adrian Bunk пишет: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:35:41PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: >>> - inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; >>> + inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; >>> + inode->i_atime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; >>> + inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; >> multiple assignments like "x = y = z = value;" can potentially (depending >> on the compiler and arch) be faster than "x = value; y = value; z=value;" > > Only depending on the compiler, and recent gcc versions are quite good > at optimizing code. > >> I am surprized that this script complains about them as it is a perfectly >> valid thing to do in C. > > Checkpatch warns about the something already documented in > Documentation/CodingStyle: > > <-- snip --> > > Don't put multiple assignments on a single line either. Kernel coding style > is super simple. Avoid tricky expressions. > > <-- snip --> > > Nobody claims it wasn't perfectly valid C code, the point is that > multiple assignments on a single line are harder to read. Thanks for your explanation. So, it was just a matter of readability, not language lawyering. In fact, this is how I interpreted that complaint from the checkpatch.pl script. Dmitri - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html