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Subject: Re: [Cocci] [RFC PATCH] scripts: coccicheck: Improve error feedback
 when coccicheck fails
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >>>> How do you think about to use the following check variant?
> >>>>
> >>>> +	if [ "${DEBUG_FILE}" != '/dev/null' -a "${DEBUG_FILE}" != '' ]; then
> …
> > I have no idea.  Why can't they be nclosed by double quotes as well?
>
> Both script variants can work.
> Such coding style variations can trigger different run time characteristics
> (besides expressing specific intentions), can't they?

Again, I have no idea.  But the runtime cost of these tests must be
microscopic as compared to the overall cost of make coccicheck.

julia
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