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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Cocci] Replacing the type casting
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 20:06:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bff29ca-8cb6-66f8-a470-34c0c1734363@web.de> (raw)

> > I must be missing something very obvious as just removing the type works, but adding the `+ (dns_rdatacommon_t *)` line makes the rule fail.
>
> Coccinelle is not able to infer typedefs in casts.

Under which circumstances can this software situation be reconsidered?

How long will an extra metavariable specification like “typedef dns_rdatacommon_t;”
be needed for the mentioned transformation approach?

Regards,
Markus
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             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-08 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-08 19:06 Markus Elfring [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-02-08 19:44 [Cocci] Replacing the type casting Markus Elfring
2020-02-08 20:09 ` Ondřej Surý
2020-02-08 20:37   ` Markus Elfring
2020-02-08 13:48 Ondřej Surý
2020-02-08 16:07 ` Julia Lawall

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