Re: coccinelle: adjustments for array.cocci?

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

>>> I too recall that seemingly redundant entries were noticed during
>>> the review and at least back then removing the seemingly redundant
>>> ones caused failures in rewriting.
>>
>> I am curious if the redundancy can be reconsidered once more.
>>
>> Do you refer to open issues around source code reformatting
>> and pretty-printing together with the Coccinelle software here?
>
> Sorry, I do not follow.
>
> If you are asking if I am interested in following bleeding edge
> Coccinelle development and use this project as a guinea pig to do so,

I did not ask this.

You mentioned “failures”. - I became curious then if corresponding software
development challenges can be clarified a bit more.


> then the answer is no.

Such feedback is reasonable.


> I'd rather see us instead staying on the trailing edge ;-)
> to make sure that we use common denominator features that are known
> to be available in all widely deployed and perhaps a bit dated versions
> that come with popular distros.

I find that I am proposing script adjustments within the basic feature set
for the semantic patch language here.
Further fine-tuning will become possible, won't it?

Regards,
Markus