Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] x86, ptdump: Simplify page flag evaluation code

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Sep 21 2014 - 15:49:53 EST


On 9/21/2014 8:26 AM, Mathias Krause wrote:
- if (pr & _PAGE_PCD)
- pt_dump_cont_printf(m, dmsg, "PCD ");
- else
- pt_dump_cont_printf(m, dmsg, " ");
+ pt_dump_cont(m, dmsg, "%-4s", pr & _PAGE_USER ? "USR" : "");

while you have some nice cleanups in your patch, I can't say I consider this an improvement.
Yes the C standard allows ? to be used like this
but no, I don't think it improves readability in general.
(I think for me the main exception is NULL pointer cases, but this is not one of these)


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