Re: [PATCH 3/5] tools lib traceevent: use else-if cascade, not separate ifs

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Mar 18 2014 - 10:18:34 EST


Em Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:30:06AM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:10:48 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Em Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 05:02:09PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:26:36 -0400, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > > > When token cannot be more than one value, it seems wasteful to go
> > > > through all the strcmp() calls. Use an else-if cascade instead.

> > > I think the end result will be same since it returns from inside the
> > > block, right?
> >
> > Exactly :-)
> >
> > We could have it changed to something like:
> >
> > if (strcmp()) {
> > ret = bla();
> > goto out_free_token;
> > }
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > out_free_token:
> > free_token(token);
> > return ret;

> Honestly, I prefer the original, thus I would add a NAK to this patch.

No problem with that, if I had written that code, I'd prefer the gotos,
but that is kinda personal preference.

Yeah, I'd nack that patch as well, changes nothing.

- Arnaldo
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