On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Toralf Förster wrote: > Inspired by this "typo" fix > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1754640 > I grep'ed the current git tree of linus for similar issues. I wonder if we couldn't use Coccinelle to do that? I would say it would be not as cool as deep grep magick, but Coccinelle is cool by definition and therefore immune from any such comparisons :-) > Nevertheless I was told, that gcc doesn't complain about such things due > to eventually evaluating it to "sizeof(null)". I'm however curious if at > least a warning should be emitted in such a case, or? Well, it cannot become a real bug because the moment the code changes to actually access/derreference such a typo, it will cause the compiler to abort with an error. If gcc will have to waste a measurable amount of time to issue such a warning, it is not worth it. OTOH, such typos could confuse someone reading the code into thinking they're dealing with a different structure or something, and it _is_ incorrect code no matter how harmless, so it makes sense to fix all such typos eventually. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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