On Friday, June 01, 2012 2:23:42 am Eitan Adler wrote: > On 31 May 2012 22:13, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > This seems to change a style by (excessive parentheses for a normal > > equality test) into logic bug (assignment of dtrh instead of compariing > > with it). > > intentional - perhaps my commit message was poorly worded. > > The comment above says > 283 /* > 284 * restore a previously allocated dtrh at current offset and > update > 285 * the available reserve length accordingly. If dtrh is null just > 286 * update the reserve length, only > 287 */ > > > and gnn confirmed that the patch as committed is correct.
This is why I personally loathe assignment side effects in boolean expressions for control flow. I tend to write this sort of thing instead as: channel->dtr_arr[dtr_index].dtr = dtrh; if (dtrh != NULL) { -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"