[Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Mon Aug 8 10:05:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:57 +0800, David Teigland wrote:
> > 
> > Please drop the extra braces.
> 
> Here and elsewhere we try to keep unused stuff off the stack.  Are you
> suggesting that we're being overly cautious, or do you just dislike the
> way it looks?

nice theory. In practice gcc 3.x still adds up all the stack space
anyway and as long as gcc 3.x is a supported kernel compiler, you can't
depend on this. Also.. please favor readability. gcc is getting smarter
about stack use nowadays, and {}'s shouldn't be needed to help it, it
tracks liveness of variables already.






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