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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: "Christian A. Ehrhardt" <lk@c--e.de>, cocci@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [cocci] Replacing cast in nested initializers
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:26:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1974acbf-e116-4c6c-8402-e0a5786f81a5@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z4re766p6mujr7h4@cae.in-ulm.de>

> I am trying to replace casts in nested struct initialisers.
> My patch attempt looks like this:
>
> @@
> identifier __type;
> identifier __name;
> expression __data;
> @@
>
> | struct __type __name[...] = {
> | 	...,
> | 	{
> | 		...,
> | -		(del_t)
> | +		(add_t)
> | 		&__data
> | 		,...
> | 	}
> | 	,...
> | };
>
> Running this on this .c file
>
> | struct foo foos[] = {
> | 	{ (del_t)&x1 },
> | 	{ (del_t)0 },
> | 	{ (del_t)&x2 }
> | };

I find your usage of pipe characters confusing here.


> I would expect the first and the third cast (in front of "&x1" and "&x2)
> to be replaced.
>
> However, only the first cast (in front of "&x1") is replaced and
> I get a warning the del_t might have to be meta variable. If I add
>
> | typedef del_t;
>
> to the patch only the last cast (in front of "&x2") is replaced.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

I suggest to take another look at applications of SmPL dot variants.
https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/8aa44ca0ff45be70f124802696ea58c75843e2a9/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L793


Will you get further development ideas from additional information
for the semantic patch language like the following?


@casting@
identifier my_name, my_type;
expression data;
@@
 struct my_type my_name[...]
 =
 {
 ...,
 <+...
 {
 ...,
 (
-del_t
+add_t
 )
 &data
 , ...
 }
 ,
 ...+>
 };


Markus_Elfring@Sonne:…/Projekte/Coccinelle/Probe> spatch --parse-cocci suggestion_for_Christian_Ehrhardt.cocci
…
minus: parse error:
  File "suggestion_for_Christian_Ehrhardt.cocci", line 14, column 1, charpos = 291
  around = '{',
  whole content =  {


Regards,
Markus

      reply	other threads:[~2025-01-23 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-17 22:51 [cocci] Replacing cast in nested initializers Christian A. Ehrhardt
2025-01-23 13:26 ` Markus Elfring [this message]

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