[Cocci] Parse error with genl-const.cocci

[julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Hi Julia,
>
> On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 10:18 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> > The attribute metavariable declaration has become attribute name, to be
> > more like eg declarer name, iterator name, etc.
>
> So we have to write
>
> attribute name __genl_const;
>
> right?

Yes.

> > The handling of attributes has also been extended so that you can actually
> > match against them in some cases, such as on function declarations.  On
> > the oher hand, nothing was done to allow attributes in front of types that
> > are alone.
>
> Very cool!
>
> > I can try to fix this.  In the short term, perhaps using 1.0.4 is
> > acceptable.
>
> To me that's OK, I'll try to keep it in mind.
>
> Can we do some "#ifdef" type syntax in spatch on the version of it? :-)

There's nothing for that available at the moment.

> I guess I could also have two different versions of the patch and write
> some code to pick up which one to use, but that's a bit awkward ...
>
> But let me know if you can't actually fix this (easily), then I can do
> that instead.

OK, I'll try to look at it soon.

julia