From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:43:24 +0200
Subject: [Cocci] Coccinelle: add atomic_as_refcounter script
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To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
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> Elena, please don't follow Markus's suggestion.

I suggest to consider additional software development possibilities.

We have got recurring different opinions around the application of advanced
regular expressions.


> Coccinelle doesn't interpret regular expressions when selecting code to work on,

This software behaviour can be fine.


> and thus the resulting rule will be less efficient.

I do not come to the same conclusion for some use cases.


> Markus, if you see this somehow,

Yes. - But I can read your response only by the web interface for your mailing
list archive at the moment.
https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2017-August/004308.html


> at least yesterday all mail sent to you was bouncing.

Thanks for this information. - I was not informed about such message exchange
problems so far.
I hope that communication difficulties will be fixed somehow.

Regards,
Markus