On 11/29/20 8:50 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Sun, 2020-11-29 at 16:42 +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> Hi Tom, >> >> On Fri, 2020-11-27 at 11:43 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> The macro use will already have a semicolon. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_generic_token.c | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_generic_token.c >>> b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_generic_token.c >>> index fe97f3106536..9ae22d797390 100644 >>> --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_generic_token.c >>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_generic_token.c >>> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ >>> /* TWRITE_STR from gssapiP_generic.h */ >>> #define TWRITE_STR(ptr, str, len) \ >>> memcpy((ptr), (char *) (str), (len)); \ >>> - (ptr) += (len); >>> + (ptr) += (len) >>> >>> /* XXXX this code currently makes the assumption that a mech oid >>> will >>> never be longer than 127 bytes. This assumption is not >>> inherent >>> in >> There is exactly 1 use of this macro in the code AFAICS. Can we >> please >> just get rid of it, and make the code trivially easier to read? >> > > BTW: To illustrate just how obfuscating this kind of macro can be, note > that the line you are changing above will be completely optimised away > in the 1 use case we're talking about. It is bumping a pointer value > that immediately gets discarded. Yes, I agree. I was wondering about expanding treewide, all the single shot macros defined/used in c files. other fixers that cleanup unused variables would remove the unneeded expansions like this one.