Re: + checkpatch-add-check-for-use-of-sizeof-without-parenthesis.patch added to

["George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>]

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Unser geliebter Führer schreib:
> sizeof without parenthesis is an abomination, and should never be used.

Huh.  I prefer sizeof without parens, like I prefer return without parens.

It actually annoys me when I see someone write

	return(0);

Because it's not a function (our language is too low-level to use
continuation-passing style), it's magic syntax.

Sizeof likewise.  I tend to use "p = malloc(sizeof *p)" a lot.
It just reads more nicely, to my eyes, than "p = malloc(sizeof(*p))".

If I wanted my code to be cluttered with parens, I'd write it in
Lots of Irritating Silly Parenthese.


Certainly, tha paren-less style is all over the kernel.  It's heavily
used in arch/x86/boot, for example.

I guess it's what you're used to.