Re: [PATCH] [MIPS] Malta: Remove unneeded function protos from malta-reset.c

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> Code written to require intimate knowledge of all operator priorities is
> probably as bad as overuse.  Here a few examples:
> 
>       return (1);
> #define FOO   (42)
>       a = (b + c);
>       a = (b + c) + d;
>       a = (b * c) + (d * e);
>       if ((a > b) && (a < c))

 Sometimes additional brackets are useful to emphasise some logical 
grouping of entities used, so I would accept even such a construct as:

        a = (b + c + d) + (e + f);

to bring attention of the reader that a, b and c refer to something other 
than e and f, but yes, it would require explicit justification and I 
wouldn't consider it a blanket accept statement for such kinds of 
expressions.

 The #define case makes my eyes hurt.  OTOH we require unnecessary 
brackets in the context of sizeof. ;)

  Maciej