From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>, cocci@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [cocci] Terminology evolution for SmPL?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:03:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd83f450-3110-47a5-ac5d-ea12f5eae323@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1b6d33d-cfc0-ff6b-47de-7bbc28e8a7d@inria.fr>
> There is no guarantee that two metavariables don't match the same thing.
Can such information also mean that some metavariables would be treated as aliases?
I imagine there are further consequences to consider for the involved terminology.
Will chances grow to achieve related improvements?
> If you don't want them to match the same thing, then you need to use a disjunction.
It seems that there are logical constraints.
> In the first branch,
Unwanted source code parts can be excluded at the beginning so that the “gems”
would be left over at the end.
> the same metavariable should be used twice,
Some processing efforts were needed already for such a condition check.
Would it be nice if further symbol information can be reused?
> and then in the second branch there would be the two different metavariables.
Can a name registry be helpful here?
> The match should only be indicated for the second branch.
Would it eventually become affected by combinatorial explosion?
Regards,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-24 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-19 14:00 [cocci] Analysis challenges with SmPL for pass-through functions? Markus Elfring
2025-10-19 14:10 ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-19 14:25 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-19 14:30 ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-19 14:37 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-19 14:40 ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-19 14:50 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-21 6:16 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-21 9:12 ` Julia Lawall
2025-10-21 9:40 ` Markus Elfring
2025-10-24 19:03 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2025-10-22 9:20 ` Markus Elfring
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