On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 15:05 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Perl 5.22 onwards require that "A literal "{" should now be
> escaped in a pattern".
Not quite correct.
> checkpatch contains several literal "{". Fix such instances
> by preceding them with a backslash.
Not all literal left braces need to be escaped.
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1191981
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ sub annotate_values {
> print "ASSIGN($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
> $type = 'N';
>
>
> - } elsif ($cur =~/^(;|{|})/) {
> + } elsif ($cur =~ /^(;|\{|\})/) {
Like this one. And why escape the right brace too?
> print "END($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
> $type = 'E';
> $av_pend_colon = 'O';
> @@ -3913,7 +3913,7 @@ sub process {
> # it there is no point in retrying a statement scan
> # until we hit end of it.
> my $frag = $stat; $frag =~ s/;+\s*$//;
> - if ($frag !~ /(?:{|;)/) {
> + if ($frag !~ /(?:\{|;)/) {
And here.
etc...
