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Subject[RFC PATCH] checkpatch: check for trivial sizeofs
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sizeof(char) and its variations in most cases doesn't make code more clear.
It only makes code wordy.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index eac40f0abd56..9dd338b125d2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6045,6 +6045,13 @@ sub process {
}
}

+# check for trivial sizeof(char) == 1
+ if ($line =~ /\bsizeof\s*\(\s*((?:(?:un)?signed\s+)?char|(?:__)?u8|u?int8_t|[us]?byte(?:_t)?)\s*\)/) {
+ my $byte = $1;
+ CHK("SIZEOF_TRIVIAL",
+ "redundant sizeof($byte) == 1 \n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for struct spinlock declarations
if ($line =~ /^.\s*\bstruct\s+spinlock\s+\w+\s*;/) {
WARN("USE_SPINLOCK_T",
--
2.26.2
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