Re: coccinelle: adjustments for array.cocci?

[Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>]

> This eliminates duplication in the semantic patch, which is good.

Thanks that you think in such a direction.


> It messes up the indentation of n in some of the cases in 921d49be86 ("use
> COPY_ARRAY for copying arrays", 2019-06-15), though.  Hmm, but that can
> be cured by duplicating the comma:

I have picked up further improvement possibilities for this SmPL script.
Would you like to integrate any of these changes?


@@
expression dst, src, n, E;
@@
 memcpy(dst, src, sizeof(
+                        *(
                           E
-                           [...]
+                         )
                         ) * n
       )

@@
type T;
T *ptr;
T[] arr;
expression E, n;
@@
 memcpy(
(       ptr, E, sizeof(
-                      *(ptr)
+                      T
                      ) * n
|       arr, E, sizeof(
-                      *(arr)
+                      T
                      ) * n
|       E, ptr, sizeof(
-                      *(ptr)
+                      T
                      ) * n
|       E, arr, sizeof(
-                      *(arr)
+                      T
                      ) * n
)
       )

@@
type T;
T* dst_ptr, src_ptr;
T[] dst_arr, src_arr;
expression n, x;
@@
-memcpy
+COPY_ARRAY
       (
(       dst_ptr
|       dst_arr
)
       ,
(       src_ptr
|       src_arr
)
-      , (n) * \( sizeof(T) \| sizeof(*(x)) \)
+      , n
       )

@@
type T;
T* dst, src, ptr;
expression n;
@@
(
-memmove
+MOVE_ARRAY
        (dst, src
-                , (n) * \( sizeof(* \( dst \| src \) ) \| sizeof(T) \)
+                , n
        )
|
-ptr = xmalloc((n) * \( sizeof(*ptr) \| sizeof(T) \))
+ALLOC_ARRAY(ptr, n)
);


Now I observe that the placement of space characters can be a coding style
concern at four places for adjusted lines by the generated patch.
Would you like to clarify remaining issues for pretty-printing
in such use cases?

Regards,
Markus