Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Report missing spaces around trigraphs with--strict

[Joe Perches]

> would you mind looking at why
> it gives a false positive for spaces around '*' on my recent patch at
> 20130901234251.GB25057@leaf">http://mid.gmane.org/20130901234251.GB25057@leaf ?  It appears to
> mistake the '*' of a pointer for a multiply.

Looks like checkpatch thinks this should be a multiplication.

Try this:
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9bb056c..e421b5e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3005,7 +3005,7 @@ sub process {
 					 $op eq '*' or $op eq '/' or
 					 $op eq '%')
 				{
-					if ($ctx =~ /Wx[^WCE]|[^WCE]xW/) {
+					if ($ctx =~ /Wx[^WCEB]|[^WCE]xW/) {
 						if (ERROR("SPACING",
 							  "need consistent spacing around '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) {
 							$good = rtrim($fix_elements[$n]) . " " . trim($fix_elements[$n + 1]) . " ";


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