From: Joe Perches

Sent: 05 January 2021 10:01

On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 15:05 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:

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Perl 5.22 onwards require that "A literal "{" should now be
escaped in a pattern".

Sounds like a good reason to never use perl :-)

Not quite correct.

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checkpatch contains several literal "{". Fix such instances
by preceding them with a backslash.

Not all literal left braces need to be escaped.
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1191981

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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl

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@@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ sub annotate_values {

 			print "ASSIGN($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
 			$type = 'N';


-		} elsif ($cur =~/^(;|{|})/) {
+		} elsif ($cur =~ /^(;|\{|\})/) {

isn't (;|{|}) much the same as [;{}] ??

	David

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