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| author | Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> | 2012-05-31 16:26:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -0700 |
| commit | 9a4cad4e25b91f48494f13fce3d25ea44bec7472 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b7cbfdf1517792f826f23408b8ca023ee2b3229 /scripts | |
| parent | 133fd9f5cda2d86904126f4b9fa4e8f4330c9569 (diff) | |
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checkpatch: check for whitespace before semicolon at EOL
Requires --strict option during invocation:
~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch
This tests for a bad habits of mine like this:
return 0 ;
Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon
for empty loops:
while (foo())
;
Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index faea0ec612bf..2262e1f57fa6 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2448,6 +2448,13 @@ sub process { "space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr); } } + +# check for whitespace before a non-naked semicolon + if ($line =~ /^\+.*\S\s+;/) { + CHK("SPACING", + "space prohibited before semicolon\n" . $herecurr); + } + # Check operator spacing. if (!($line=~/\#\s*include/)) { my $ops = qr{ |