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Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon

From Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon
Date 2017-03-30 19:30 +0200
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On 30/03/2017 at 15:30:46 +0200, jacopo wrote:
> Hi Arushi,
>    thanks for your patch
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 06:16:03PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> > Replace a comma between expression statements by a semicolon. This
> > changes the semantics of the code, but given the current indentation
> > appears to be what is intended.
> > A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch that performs this
> > transformation is as follows:
> > 
> > // <smpl>
> > @r@
> > expression e1,e2;
> > @@
> > 
> >  e1
> > -,
> > +;
> >  e2;
> > // </smpl>
> > 
> 
> You can simply say that this fixes what appears to be a bug to me.
> I wonder how this does even compile..
> 

It is not a bug, it is perfectly valid and working as expected/intended.
This is just a cosmetic change.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator if you want to
understand.


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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com> - 2017-03-30 14:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net> - 2017-03-30 15:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-04-01 12:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon jacopo <jacopo@jmondi.org> - 2017-03-30 15:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-30 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a semicolon jacopo <jacopo@jmondi.org> - 2017-03-30 20:10 +0200
  Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] iio: adc: replace comma with a  semicolon Alison Schofield <amsfield22@gmail.com> - 2017-03-30 20:30 +0200

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