Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: synth.c: removed a space

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 10:38 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:35:15AM +0200, Aldo Iljazi wrote:
> >  Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 
> > > Err, I'd rather make it really visible that the for loop doesn't have
> > > its first statement?
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better if you add a comment there? So it would follow the
> > coding style?
> 
> No.  Adding obvious comments is more annoying than the space.
> 
> This seems like a small bug in checkpatch.pl.  Joe, the problem is this
> code:
> 
> 	for ( ; x; x++) {
> 
> It's complaining about the space character before the semicolon.

Shrug.  checkpatch isn't and can't be perfect.

I think it's for things like

	for (;;)

and that's better than

	for ( ; ; )
or
	for ( ;; )
or
	for ( ;;)


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