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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:37:14 -0400
From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: "Robin Getz" <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/68] 0 -> NULL, for arch/frv
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On 7/27/07, Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> wrote:
> If there is a definite style or semantic preference that everyone should live
> with - does it make sense to put checks in checkpatch.pl to enforce it?

checkpatch.pl does not have enough semantic knowledge to know if the
thing being tested is a pointer ... dont know if the sparse utility
would be able to pick it out as i'm not familiar with what level that
thing runs at
-mike