On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:08:08 -0700, Joe Perches said:
(forwarding on to kernel-janitors/mentees and kernelnewbies)
Just fyi for anyone that cares:
A janitorial task for someone might be to use Julia's coccinelle script below to convert the existing instances of commas that separate statements into semicolons.
Note that you need to *really* check for possible changes in semantics. It's *usually* OK to do that, but sometimes it's not... for (i=0; i++, last++; !last) { changing that comma to a ; will break the compile. In other cases, it can introduce subtle bugs.
I do appreciate that coccinelle adds braces for multiple expression comma use after an if.
i.e.: if (foo) a = 1, b = 2; becomes if (foo) { a = 1; b = 2; }
Yeah. Like there, if you forget to add the {}.