From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: cocci@inria.fr
Subject: [cocci] Wider applications of SmPL conjunctions?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01fe8b37-9fff-4137-818c-8a851ce588a3@web.de> (raw)
Hello,
Special “conjunctions” are supported also by the semantic patch language.
https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/cc7ff34b307724845875be57d5fe9a5fadb36844/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L1041
I accordingly got some impressions from applications of this software functionality.
Some source code search patterns can be combined then by the SmPL operator “&”.
It seems that an ordering of involved items would be more reasonable
for such a combination than others.
* An identifier can be searched.
It can be determined then also to which expression it would belong.
* A specific compound statement can be searched
(together with included metavariables as needed).
If you would like to avoid the repetition of the same specification
for a subsequent search, it can be a corresponding metavariable defined
based on the type “statement”.
* Would statement lists match the next bigger item in the abstraction hierarchy?
* Will development interests grow for further topics?
Example:
Add a metavariable for the handling of source code
2018-05-23
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/issues/140
Regards,
Markus
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