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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:53:24 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334669 - head/sys/sys
Message-ID:  <1528232004.63685.25.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201806052034.w55KYBsb096418@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201806052034.w55KYBsb096418@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 20:34 +0000, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> Author: vangyzen
> Date: Tue Jun  5 20:34:11 2018
> New Revision: 334669
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/334669
> 
> Log:
>   Make Coverity more happy with r334545
>   
>   Coverity complains about:
>   
>   	if (((flags) & M_WAITOK) || _malloc_item != NULL)
>   
>   saying:
>   
>   	The expression
>   		1 /* (2 | 0x100) & 2 */ || _malloc_item != NULL
>   	is suspicious because it performs a Boolean operation
>   	on a constant other than 0 or 1.
>   
>   Although the code is correct, add "!= 0" to make it slightly
>   more legible and to silence hundreds(?) of Coverity warnings.
>   

This is a sad sad thing. Treating (bits & flagconstants) as boolean has
a long long history in C. Surely there are literally thousand of
occurrances in freebsd code already, so why did this one get flagged?

-- Ian




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