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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: cocci@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [cocci] Reconsidering application of selected SmPL isomorphisms
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:37:43 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <efec9984-4eee-4c75-76ce-e6bd27442daa@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434d257c-f0a5-483d-9fcb-3303301ad867@web.de>

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to clarify software development consequences also for
> a simple script variant for the semantic patch language (like the following).
>
>
> @show_questionable_checks@
> expression e1, e2;
> statement s1, s2;
> @@
>  if
>  (
> *!(e1 || e2)
>  )
>     s1
>  else
>     s2
>
>
> Questionable test result:
> Markus_Elfring@Sonne:/home/altes_Heim2/elfring/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor> spatch --parse-cocci show_questionable_OR_checks2.cocci
> …
> (
>
> (
>
> (
> if (*!*(*e1 *|| *e2*))
> |
> if (*!*e1 *|| *e2)
> )s1 else s2
> |
> …
>
>
> I would interpret such data display in the way that the isomorphism “paren”
> was applied here.
> https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/04f71e76b0857ca12ec7207b26368df78d2b57d4/standard.iso#L389
>
> I find the shown SmPL code transformation inappropriate at this place.
> Would we like to apply De Morgan's laws instead?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws
>
> Would we like to reconsider the application of the isomorphism for the switching
> of if/else branches accordingly?

Indeed, it looks wrong.

Thanks for the report.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-25 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-25 13:16 [cocci] Reconsidering application of selected SmPL isomorphisms Markus Elfring
2024-11-25 15:37 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2024-11-25 15:42 ` Julia Lawall
2024-11-25 16:13   ` Markus Elfring
2024-11-25 16:23     ` Julia Lawall
2024-11-25 16:34       ` Markus Elfring
2024-11-25 16:46         ` Julia Lawall
2024-11-25 16:57           ` [cocci] Advanced handling of logical operator chains (with SmPL)? Markus Elfring
2024-11-25 17:03             ` Julia Lawall
2024-11-25 17:08               ` Markus Elfring
2024-11-25 17:04       ` [cocci] Data processing challenges for pointer expressions Markus Elfring
2024-11-25 17:16         ` Julia Lawall
2024-11-25 17:58           ` Markus Elfring
2024-11-26  9:21           ` [cocci] Data processing challenges for source code analyses Markus Elfring

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