> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Howells [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:36 AM
> To: Joe Perches
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Myklebust, Trond;
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] SunRPC: Use no_printk() for the null dprintk() and
> dfprintk()
> 
> Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > no_printk doesn't prevent any argument side-effects from being
> > optimized away by the compiler.
> >
> > ie:
> >     dprintk("%d", func())
> > func is now always called when before it wasn't.
> 
> Yes, I know.  There are half a dozen places where this is the case.  Those 
> I've
> wrapped in ifdebug(FACILITY) { ... } in the code.  It's not the nicest, but at
> least the compiler always gets to see everything, rather than bits of it 
> getting
> hidden by the preprocessor - which means the call points will be less likely 
> to
> bit rot over time.

Your assumption is that RPC_DEBUG is disabled for most compiles. That is not 
the case.

Trond
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