From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: cocci@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [cocci] Increasing awareness for short-circuit evaluation consequences by SmPL disjunctions?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 13:11:42 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cfd83f7-cc7-fbf-1432-c3ce47337987@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55fe2528-2405-4762-8e2c-f326810dc2ea@web.de>
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Disjunctions of the semantic patch language are using short-circuit evaluation.
> It has got the consequence that the last element of the specified condition will
> only be checked if all previous parts did not match. Such a technical detail
> can lead to a recommended ordering of condition parts if you would like to care
> for optimal run time characteristics of SmPL code.
>
> The usage incidence might be unclear for involved case distinctions.
> How do you think about to clarify possibilities any further for the reordering of
> SmPL disjunction items?
What is unclear? The disjunction branches are not reordered.
julia
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2025-02-05 12:05 [cocci] Increasing awareness for short-circuit evaluation consequences by SmPL disjunctions? Markus Elfring
2025-02-05 12:11 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2025-02-05 12:20 ` Markus Elfring
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