On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 23:35 -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:08:08 -0700, Joe Perches said:

quoted

(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.

True enough for a general statement, though the coccinelle
script Julia provided does not change a single instance of
for loop expressions with commas.

As far as I can tell, no logic defect is introduced by the
script at all.


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