> I personally like the explicit compare (ptr != NULL) more than the !ptr notation. Coding style aspects can evolve, can't they? > When was the checkpatch.pl script modified to suggest the latter notation? Would you like to take another look at the software update “checkpatch: add --strict "pointer comparison to NULL" test” from 2014-12-10? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b75ac618df751b927469ddbca63cf151a62f0f9d > Is there any advantage other than the shorter notation? * Do you eventually care for an influence on the run time characteristics for the compilation of this software module? * How do you think about to reduce the dependency on a special preprocessor symbol? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
