[U-Boot] [PATCH-OMAP3] OMAP3: Plain numbers don't need parens

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Nov 4 22:08:24 CET 2008


Dear Magnus,

In message <59b21cf20811041128uca98211v51ca6b393c3d5d56 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > you might comment that such a #define is dangerous in itself, but why
> > not protet against it? with a number we are sure we don't need parens,
> > but with a macro we'd should rather play safe.
> 
> Should we really start protection against such things?

No. We should not start doing this. We should have  been  doing  this
from  the  beginning. Defensive programming is a simple but efficient
tool to help producing high quality software.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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