From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead•org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
Progyan Bhattacharya <bprogyan@gmail•com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, linux-next@vger•kernel.org,
narmstrong@baylibre•com, akpm@linux-foundation•org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia•org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Build: Scripts/Makefile: Remove Repeated Lines
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:24:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bec02b84-316b-a41a-91ea-e0957d358ee3@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180215160520.5828f900@canb.auug.org.au>
On 02/14/2018 09:05 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Progyan,
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:50:03 +0530 Progyan Bhattacharya <bprogyan@gmail•com> wrote:
>>
>
>> PS: I have another question, Is use of range expression within case
>> statements allowed in Kernel? If not, are we using If-Else ladder for that?
>
> I am not sure if we have a policy on ranges in case labels, but it is
> not standard C (well, C11 at least). If-else ladders are certainly
> common.
I found 964 case ranges in 4.16-rc1.
or you use something like:
switch (val) {
case 5:
case 10:
case 15:
// handle multiples of 5:
break;
default:
}
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-15 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 9:25 [PATCH] Build: Scripts/Makefile: Remove Repeated Lines Progyan Bhattacharya
2018-02-14 11:49 ` Stephen Rothwell
[not found] ` <CAGyWO1-9scERtpPw5CCwQcUbCU0SpcqpNq2eiBWRtwpRC-kB-A@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-15 5:05 ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-02-15 5:24 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
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2018-02-15 17:52 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <CAGyWO1-356ncU=122yrqCoL96pCVfaqJwdFvkmqfot3fzVF6pg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-02-15 5:09 ` Stephen Rothwell
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