On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Max wrote:

> Attached are spatch and minimal example to reproduce the error.
>
> I believe that the reason is the last '}' of multiline #define. This seems
> like a valid syntax to gcc but spatch gives aforementioned error.

There seems to be something unanticipated about the control-flow graph of
a macro definition.  You can use the argument --allow-inconsistent-paths
to bypass this check.

julia

>
> Just in case ML won't accept attachements, here's how #define looks like:
>
> ________________
>
> #define OLD(msg, data, len)                         \
>     if (msgb_func(msg) != len) {                    \
>         printf("%s:%d ERROR! with %d\n",     \
>             __func__, __LINE__, (int) len);     \
>         abort();                        \
>     }
> ________________
>
>
> 18.12.18 16:34, Julia Lawall пишет:
> >
> > It's complaining about the rule starting on line 2, which is the one
> > removing the #define.  So the problem doesn't have anything to do with the
> > two rules being together - it never starts executing the second one.
> >
> > Something being reachable by inconsistent control-flow paths occurs when
> > if you trace through the function in one way (ie via one if branch) you
> > get one transformation, and if you trace through it in another way you get
> > another transformation (or no transformation).
> >
> > It's a bit strange that this would occur in your case, where you just want
> > to remove the entire body of the #define.  Can you mak a simple example
> > that illustrates the problem?
> >
> > To figure out what #define is being considered, you can try the
> > command-line argument --show-trying.  If that doesn't suffice (I don't
> > know to what extent it is supported for #define), then --verbose-match
> > might be helpful as well.
> >
> > julia
>
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