Re: [PATCH] Small kfree cleanup, save a local variable.

[Jesper Juhl]

On 6/19/05, Michael Buesch <mbuesch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quoting Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>:
> > Here's a patch with a small improvement to kernel/auditsc.c .
> > There's no need for the local variable  struct audit_entry *e  ,
> > we can just call kfree directly on container_of() .
> 
> Did you look at the assembly output? Does it change?
> I think the compiler optimizes this variable away, anyway.
> So, if there's no improvement, I would personally prefer the
> original form as it's more readable.
> 
gcc does optimize it away. 
Personally I find both forms equally readable, and with the change the
source matches what the code actually ends up as, but I don't care
much one way or the other.

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