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Re: [PATCH 3/3] ath9k: fix 'side effect in macro' smatch warning

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On 06/22/2012 04:55 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17:23AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
Rajkumar Manoharan<rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  writes:

ath9k_get_et_stats() warn: side effect in macro
'AWDATA' doing 'i++'

Cc: Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan<rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[...]

  	do {								\
-		data[i++] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_BE)].elem; \
-		data[i++] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_BK)].elem; \
-		data[i++] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_VI)].elem; \
-		data[i++] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_VO)].elem; \
+		data[i+0] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_BE)].elem; \
+		data[i+1] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_BK)].elem; \
+		data[i+2] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_VI)].elem; \
+		data[i+3] = sc->debug.stats.txstats[PR_QNUM(WME_AC_VO)].elem; \
+		i += 4; \
  	} while (0)

I agree with Ben, this is a useless change as the end result is still
the same (the side effect is that i is increased with four). You are
just hiding that from smatch and once smatch is fixed it will warn again
about the same thing.

I recommend fixing this properly so that the macro doesn't have any side
effects.

Uh.  Sorry, also I thought I had pushed a fix to add this to the
ignored macro list, but I forgot.  I've pushed it now.

The whole point of the macro is to have an affect.  This is not a general
purpose macro..it's very specific to this local logic.

I don't think folks should be so dogmatic about these sorts of things.

Thanks,
Ben


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