Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for whitespace before semicolonat end-of-line

From: Eric Nelson
Date: Thu May 03 2012 - 09:41:09 EST


Thanks Joe,

On 05/02/2012 08:58 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 20:32 -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:
This tests for a bad habits of mine like this:

return 0 ;

Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson<eric.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a3b9782..0e6977e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3227,6 +3227,12 @@ sub process {
"Statements terminations use 1 semicolon\n" . $herecurr);
}

+# check for whitespace before semicolon - not allowed at end-of-line
+ if ($line =~ /\s+;$/) {

if ($line =~ /\s+;\s*$/)

Won't the extra space at end of line be caught by other tests?

+ WARN("SPACEBEFORE_SEMICOLON",

WARN("SPACING",

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