Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Schwingen
Rick Altherr wrote: I personally find the excerpted line confusing and clunky. I _do_ know what it does, but only because I've written the exact same code to handle the error cases returned by stroul. Without seeing the rest of the code, here's what I don't like about it: - okay is a

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-17 Thread Timothy Clacy
Rick Altherr wrote: I personally find the excerpted line confusing and clunky. I _do_ know what it does, but only because I've written the exact same code to handle the error cases returned by stroul. Without seeing the rest of the code, here's what I don't like about it: -

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-17 Thread Rick Altherr
On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Michael Schwingen wrote: - If you are testing that a variable is non-NULL, write that. Similarly for a test for NULL. Taking the short-cut just makes it less clear what you are doing and why. Besides, it isn't necessarily guaranteed that NULL will always be 0.

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-16 Thread Nico Coesel
-Original Message- From: openocd-development-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:openocd- development-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Zach Welch Sent: dinsdag 16 juni 2009 1:19 To: open...@duaneellis.com Cc: Openocd-Dev Subject: Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-15 Thread Rick Altherr
On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Zach Welch wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:14 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: bool okay = *str !*end ULLONG_MAX != *ul; In my long career, I have seen too many poor souls - including my self become the victim of even my own seemingly simple attempts to

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-15 Thread Duane Ellis
zack Seriously? You think that my efforts have increased the obfuscation? No, in generally it is _fantastically_ better. But as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. As I said this is a nit. zach I hope that you can engage in a rational discussion about this topic. Simple. Please

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-15 Thread Zach Welch
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:01 -0700, Rick Altherr wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Zach Welch wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:14 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: bool okay = *str !*end ULLONG_MAX != *ul; In my long career, I have seen too many poor souls - including my self

Re: [Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-15 Thread Rick Altherr
On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Zach Welch wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:01 -0700, Rick Altherr wrote: On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Zach Welch wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 21:14 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote: bool okay = *str !*end ULLONG_MAX != *ul; In my long career, I have seen too

[Openocd-development] Nit to pick with recent set of cleanups

2009-06-13 Thread Duane Ellis
bool okay = *str !*end ULLONG_MAX != *ul; screaming-rant In my long career, I have seen too many poor souls - including my self become the victim of even my own seemingly simple attempts to reduce the levels of () and {}. Yes, there are cases where it gets a little too deep, but