char-TPM: Adjustments for ten function implementations

Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
Wed Oct 18 20:50:46 AEDT 2017


> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 11:00 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > The printk removals do change the objects.
> > >
> > > The value of that type of change is only for resource limited systems.
> >
> > I imagine that such small code adjustments are also useful for other
> systems.
> 
> Your imagination and mine differ.
> Where do you _think_ it matters?
> 
> For instance, nothing about
> 
> 	sizeof(type)
> vs
> 	sizeof(*ptr)
> 
> makes it easier for a human to read the code.

If it does not make it easier to read the code for you, then maybe you should consider that this might not be true for all humans. For me, it makes it much easier to see at a glance, that code like ptr=malloc(sizeof(*ptr)) is correct.

Alexander


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