[Cocci] Replacing one variable name with another

[julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

> On Oct 05 2016, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >> 2. ..and how would I go about if instead of the type, I want to replace
> >>    a variable name? (my_type *ptr --> my_type *pointer).
> >
> > Would you like to try another small SmPL script out like the following?
> >
> >
> > @name_replacement@
> > @@
> >  my_type *
> > -ptr
> > +pointer
> >  ;
>
> I could try it, but I'm actually more interested in understanding how
> this works (I already solved my primariy problem). Could you explain
> this script a bit more? What exactly does "@name_replacement@" mean?

Between the initial @@ you can put the name of the rule, as well as some
other information.  If no other rule needs to refer to this one, then
there is no need for a name.

julia

> Does it the interpretation of "my_type *" further down?
>
>
> > How will your software development experiments evolve for the desired
> > application of the semantic patch language?
>
> Aeh, sorry, I don't understand the question.
>
>
> Best,
> -Nikolaus
>
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