Re: [Cocci] coccinelle: bool if (foo) return true; else return false;

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 04/19/2016 09:15 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
>> There's ~150 of these in the kernel.
>>
>> Maybe there's use for this conversion to be added
>> to scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolreturn.cocci or in
>> a separate file.
>>
>> $ cat booltruefalse.cocci
>> @@
>> identifier fn;
>> expression e;
>> typedef bool;
>> symbol true;
>> symbol false;
>> @@
>>
>> bool fn ( ... )
>> {
>> <...
>> -    if (e) return true; else return false;
>> +    return e;
Shouldn't that be:
    return !!e
?


>> ...>
>> }
>>
>> @@
>> identifier fn;
>> expression e;
>> @@
>>
>> bool fn ( ... )
>> {
>> <...
>> -    if (e) return false; else return true;
>> +    return !e;
>> ...>
>> }
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I will take care of it shortly.


bye
        michael