On Do, 2016-03-10 at 07:51 +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 03/09 14:10, Peter Xu wrote:
> >> Remove useless var "ret".
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> hw/usb/dev-mtp.c | 4 +---
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/hw/usb/dev-mtp.c b/hw/usb/dev-mtp.c
> >> index cf63fd0..38cc4fc 100644
> >> --- a/hw/usb/dev-mtp.c
> >> +++ b/hw/usb/dev-mtp.c
> >> @@ -719,10 +719,8 @@ static void usb_mtp_add_str(MTPData *data, const char
> >> *str)
> >> {
> >> uint32_t len = strlen(str)+1;
> >> wchar_t *wstr = g_malloc(sizeof(wchar_t) * len);
> >> - size_t ret;
> >>
> >> - ret = mbstowcs(wstr, str, len);
> >> - if (ret == -1) {
> >> + if (mbstowcs(wstr, str, len) == -1) {
> >> usb_mtp_add_wstr(data, L"Oops");
> >> } else {
> >> usb_mtp_add_wstr(data, wstr);
> >> --
> >> 2.4.3
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The old way has no problem, no need to clean up, IMO.
>
> It's a very small readability improvement, but it's an improvement. If
> I was the maintainer, I'd take it.
Matter of taste, I find the version with ret more readable (not
surprising given I wrote that code ;)
It's easier to see what the "if (...)" condition is because the line is
shorter.
cheers,
Gerd
