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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] Checking influence of loops?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 18:16:51 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904131816130.2536@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bedc9f4a-4d02-6898-0226-6f9e67d5d870@web.de>



On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> Should two search specifications (with SmPL ellipses) between them
> >> be kept separate for the desired diff output?
> >
> > I don't understand any of your answers precisely.
>
> I hope that we can come closer again to a better understanding
> of the reported software situation.
>
>
> > If you have a pattern like
> >
> > AAA
> > ...
> > BBB
> >
> > The AAA and BBB might match the same code
>
> I agree to this information in principle.
> But I imagine that this source code should be found
> at different positions.

No there is no such constraint.

>
>
> > if there is a possible flow of execution from the match
> > of AAA to itself.
>
> I am curious on the circumstances when such details
> would be really relevant.

Typically when there is a loop or goto.  But there is no special handling
of either construct.

julia
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-13 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 15:23 [Cocci] Searching for duplicate statements in if branches (with SmPL)? Markus Elfring
     [not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1904111728380.3143@hadrien>
2019-04-11 15:43   ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.20.1904111749350.3143@hadrien>
2019-04-11 16:00       ` Markus Elfring
2019-04-12  7:09       ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]         ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904120912270.2733@hadrien>
2019-04-12  7:43           ` Markus Elfring
2019-04-13 15:36   ` [Cocci] Checking influence of loops? Markus Elfring
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904131737540.2536@hadrien>
2019-04-13 15:42       ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]         ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904131743330.2536@hadrien>
2019-04-13 15:53           ` Markus Elfring
2019-04-13 16:03             ` Julia Lawall
2019-04-13 16:11               ` Markus Elfring
2019-04-13 16:16                 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2019-04-13 16:28                   ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904131834510.2536@hadrien>
2019-04-13 16:46                       ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]                         ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904131905320.2536@hadrien>
2019-04-13 17:29                           ` [Cocci] Clarification for SmPL ellipsis functionality Markus Elfring
2019-04-14  7:42                           ` [Cocci] Clarification for SmPL functionality around position variables Markus Elfring
2019-04-14  7:47                             ` Julia Lawall
2019-04-14  8:02                               ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]                                 ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904141006320.2615@hadrien>
2019-04-14  8:21                                   ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]                                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904141023450.2615@hadrien>
2019-04-14  8:27                                       ` Markus Elfring

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