From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] Fixing SmPL scripts for data output according to structured file formats
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:51:20 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1911081350350.2465@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfd990c8-1c1d-a6ee-7b05-e9f80160712b@web.de>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have taken another look at a script for the semantic patch language.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/scripts/coccinelle/free/iounmap.cocci?id=cd0207a7bfd29016a4eeb0b0203fa900b41e4eee
>
> It belongs to the category of SmPL scripts which support data output also for
> structured file formats. The output order matters then for the integration of
> additional information so that preferably valid data are provided at
> appropriate places.
>
> A well-known file format like “Org mode” expects then that specific contents
> should be enclosed by corresponding tags.
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html
>
> But a SmPL rule which uses the SmPL asterisk functionality triggers immediate
> output of diff hunks so far (if a source code fragment was matched).
> I find such a data processing approach questionable for this operation mode.
>
> I imagine the following solution possibilities.
>
> 1. Separate SmPL rules should be used without SmPL asterisks.
>
> 2. It would occasionally be more convenient to redirect the output to standard
> files into corresponding variables.
>
>
> How would you like to improve the software situation here?
make coccicheck uses --no-show-diff at the approrpiate place so that the *
have no effect if the context option is not chosen.
julia
>
> Regards,
> Markus
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2019-11-08 12:15 [Cocci] Fixing SmPL scripts for data output according to structured file formats Markus Elfring
2019-11-08 12:51 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2019-11-08 13:05 ` Markus Elfring
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