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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	cocci@inria.fr
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [cocci] [RFC] Increasing usage of direct pointer assignments from memcpy() calls with SmPL?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:58:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <414793e8-6961-40b6-8721-cb1aab30bbd8@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aQNsecHJSO2U68Fc@stanley.mountain>

>> - target = object; memcpy(target, source, size);
+ target = memcpy(object, source, size);


> No one will thank you for making these changes...  🙁

Will any more contributors dare to try adjustments out at such source code places?


>                                                        Please don't do it.

How will change tolerance evolve further?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-30 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-29 19:56 Markus Elfring
2025-10-29 21:24 ` [cocci] " Julia Lawall
2025-10-30  9:33   ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-30 10:12     ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-30 10:19       ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-30 10:32         ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-30 12:26   ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-30 12:31     ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-30 13:35       ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-30 13:38         ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-30 13:47       ` Dan Carpenter
2025-10-30 13:58         ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2025-10-31  6:00         ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-30 14:06   ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-30 14:14     ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-30 14:22       ` Markus Elfring

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