On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hoped to achieve something together with the semantic patch language
> by the following search pattern.
>
> @display@
> identifier action, driver;
> @@
>  static struct platform_driver driver =
>  {
>  <+...
> *.remove = action
>  ...+>
>  };
>
>
> Unfortunately, I stumble on another error message.
>
> elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor> spatch --parse-cocci show_designated_initialisers6.cocci
> …
> minus: parse error:
>   File "show_designated_initialisers6.cocci", line 7, column 1, charpos = 91
>   around = '.',
>   whole content = *.remove = action
>
>
> How would you like to clarify the software behaviour for
> such an use case?

I don't know why you would even expect this to work.  .remove is not a
mainingful construct in the C language.  It is part of one, but it is not
a construct by itself.

julia