[Cocci] coccinelle to rescue for "C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro"

[Felix.Blyakher@Quantum.Com (Felix Blyakher)]

Hello coccinelle experts,

I'm working with the legacy code and with newish gcc 7.3 hit the following warning:

warning: invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and string macro [-Wliteral-suffix]
 #define PADARG64 "0x%016"QUAD"x"
                  ^

where QUAD is a platform dependent string, thus the macro.

The string concatenation works in C OK for this code, though, gcc rightfully complains
about required space and wants it to be:

 #define PADARG64 "0x%016" QUAD "x"

The code like this is sprinkled across huge code base, mostly in printf-like statements,
and some in defines like above to be used in printf-like statements.

I'd like to use coccinelle to change the code globally.
I was trying something like (I know it may have false positive, just need to get something for starter):


@@
Identifier I;
@@

-"I"
+" I "

but spatch complains and doesn't seem is going to do what I need:

""
init_defs_builtins: /usr/lib/coccinelle/standard.h
@rule starting on line 1@
Identifier  I;
@@

-"I"
  >>> " I "



grep tokens
No query
No query
warning: rule starting on line 1: metavariable I not used in the - or context code
""

Any good hint on how to approach this issue.

Thanks,
Felix
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