Re: [PATCH v2] net: ll_temac: Use one return statement instead of two

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Mon, 11 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 17:48 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > A coccinelle script might be rather more complicated
> > > > than the simpler grep above, but perhaps the script
> > > > could be a bit more complete as it could likely look
> > > > at more code indentation styles.
> > >
> > > Julia: Any comment?
> > 
> > Here is what I had in mind:
> > 
> > if (...) {
> >   ... when != goto l;
> >   return C;
> > }
> > return C;
> > 
> > C is a constant, to avoid that its value depends on the code in the ...
> 
> Sure but I think that would miss several instances like:
> 
> 	switch (<foo>) {
> 		...
> 	default:
> 		return <bar>;
> 	}
> 	return <bar>;

Switch Coccinelle is not very good at...

> or the similar
> 
> 	if (foo) {
> 		if (qux)
> 			return <bar>;
> 	} else {
> 		return <baz>;
> 	}
> 
> 	return <baz>;

It seems improbable, but I could look for that.  Unfortunately, I don't 
see a way to deal with arbitrarily nested ifs.  Basically, the control 
flow from one return doesn't go to the other.  It goes from the return to 
the outside of the function.  I guess something could be done by renaming 
all of the returns to function calls, but that tends to make a mess.  It 
could be done to see if such cases are worth considering though.

Another similar and popular construction is:

if (...) {
  ...
  goto l;
}
l:

julia