On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 01:54:29PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Joe Perches wrote: > > > It seems most in-kernel uses are 'array' rather than '&array[0]' > > > > > > Most of the time, using array is simpler to read than &array[0]. > > > > > > Exceptions exists when addresses for consecutive members are > > > used like func(&array[0], &array[1]); > > > > I use '&array[0]' when I want to get a pointer to a single object that > > happens to be the first one in an array. > > Yeah. Of course, you're right. Otherwise it ends up confusing static > checkers if you want the first element or the whole array. > > > > > > Should this preference be put into checkpatch and/or CodingStyle? > > > > How about the following low-hanging fruit? > > > > foo(..., &array[0], ARRAY_SIZE(array), ...) > > Yes, to this also. I doubt checkpatch.pl will find a meaningful number > of these but doing that is annoying thing. Atcually, I find 236 of them, in 48 files. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
