[PATCH 0/3] batch: don't require checking retvalue of some bitmap ops
Peter Krempa
pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Jul 30 14:56:57 UTC 2020
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 17:27:35 +0300, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
> Most of bitmap setBit/clearBit/getBit users know that the bitmap index is
> not out of bound and thus don't check the return value. More precisely
> the stats is next:
>
> Method all check
> ===================================
> virBitmapSetBit 85 14
> virBitmapClearBit 15 3
> virBitmapGetBit 15 6
>
> where 'all' is the number of all occurences of the method and 'check' is the
> number of occurences with 'if (method' pattern.
>
> Thus keeping the retvalue checking requirement produces more
> noise then helps. I guess we even can make these function return
> void as users can simply compare the index with the bitmap size.
Well. An ignore_value is not really expensive and it makes the callers
aware that something needs to be checked.
I don't really see the point of this.
Additionally, individual patches are missing justification in the commit
message. Mentioning it in the cover letter is not enough as that doesn't
get comitted.
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