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From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:14:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Cocci] semantic patches for C preprocessing constructs?
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> > If someoen wants to, I guess that would be useful, but it would require
> > quite substantial changes, and thus a good understanding of both
> > ocaml and the existing code.
>
> Are there any chances to reduce the dependency on the syntax of a specific
> programming language like "OCaml"?

Huh?  Coccinelle is written in Ocaml.  Matching C preprocessing code
requires pervasive changes to its implementation.  Thus it requires
knowing the language in which the code is implemented.

> How do you think about to talk a bit more about general data structures,
> modules, classes and corresponding interfaces?

I think it is completely irrelevant to the project.

julia