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| author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> | 2008-07-23 21:29:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-24 10:47:25 -0700 |
| commit | 8d31cfcecf67563d70cd68616cb8fb4384f24b51 (patch) | |
| tree | edfe965d3efa84305a9c6fe83ecfe24b97bdc7fb /scripts | |
| parent | e2a763c20b89890d2153551b1af6962b135de4c0 (diff) | |
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checkpatch: check spacing for square brackets
Check on the spacing before square brackets. We should only allow spaces
there if this is part of a type definition or an initialialiser.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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 | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5f71b3050253..e7c8ab1b54bd 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1435,6 +1435,17 @@ sub process { ERROR("open brace '{' following $1 go on the same line\n" . $hereprev); } +# check for spacing round square brackets; allowed: +# 1. with a type on the left -- int [] a; +# 2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0..10] = 5, + while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) { + my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1); + if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ && + ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/)) { + ERROR("space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr); + } + } + # check for spaces between functions and their parentheses. while ($line =~ /($Ident)\s+\(/g) { my $name = $1; |