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From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 14:40:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Cocci] Determination of the number for named function
 parameters
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> > I have no idea.  I would have sort of expected that it would return a
> > length of 2, but I guess it is reasonable, and even desirable, that it
> > does not.  What answer would you like?
>
> I would expect that it will be treated by the SmPL pattern as a function with a
> single named parameter at least. I am unsure how the "ellipsis" should be
> counted and matched in the signature eventually.
>
> Does this small source file indicate that there might be further difficulties
> for data analysis of variadic functions?

Without knowing what you mean by "data analysis" it is impossible to tell.
It is clear that there is some problem with ... matching a parameter-typed
metavariable.  This could be considered reasonable, because ... is not a
(single) parameter.

julia