[PATCH] A few cleanups

[Michael Adam]

On 2016-02-16 at 08:59 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 04:09:23PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > 
> > For reference: It is 7b7aa016df35ed7f8388a9df08d66a816adc1bf7. The
> > patch I had sent to Jeremy contained a helper variable for
> > 
> > if (!asn1_blob(asn1, &blob)) {
> > 
> > that did not make it into master. So this is at least controversial.
> 
> I removed it as every other check within the asn1.c file
> was of the form:
> 
>   if (!fn_call()) {
>     ... error handling...
>   }
> 
> So Volker's change *in that file* stood out like a sore
> thumb

s/sore thumb/good example/   ;-)

> and looked strange (anyone reading through it
> linearly would have seen a jarring discontinuity in
> error handling).
> 
> Context *matters*.

Sure. You've got a point there (it's a matter of taste).

But thought that this inconsistency is generally
accepted as the consequence of the paradigm of adapting
to newer coding standards only for added or changed code
instead of applying sweeping changes to change all the
existing code (in order to avoid obfuscating history).

Cheers - Michael
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