From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] Software analysis with SmPL around unchecked pointer function calls
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:49:49 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910181548450.3697@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4df6f184-fcc0-343d-2460-0b2dee55fd0a@web.de>
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> Which would be a simple way to find only calls of functions
> >> which have got a pointer return type?
> >
> > expression *y;
>
> I have got understanding difficulties with this SmPL variable specification.
> I (as a C programmer) would tend to interpret an asterisk before
> an expression as a pointer dereference (and not as a call with the desired
> function return type).
> Do I get an inappropriate impression here?
Yes.
In int *i; there is no pointer dereference.
Y should match a pointer-typed expression.
julia
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2019-10-10 12:56 [Cocci] Software analysis with SmPL around unchecked function calls Markus Elfring
2019-10-10 13:13 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-10 13:35 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-10 13:38 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-10 14:04 ` Markus Elfring
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910101606420.2305@hadrien>
2019-10-10 14:15 ` Markus Elfring
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2019-10-11 5:11 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-11 6:07 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-11 7:03 ` Markus Elfring
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.21.1910110906390.2662@hadrien>
2019-10-11 7:30 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-11 9:23 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-10 16:25 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 12:54 ` [Cocci] Software analysis with SmPL around unchecked pointer " Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 13:31 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-18 13:42 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 13:49 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2019-10-18 14:20 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 14:30 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-18 14:34 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 14:39 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-18 14:46 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 14:52 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-18 14:56 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 16:00 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-18 16:06 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-18 16:32 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-19 15:33 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-19 15:41 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-19 16:04 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-19 19:40 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-20 5:42 ` Julia Lawall
2019-10-20 6:04 ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-20 9:22 ` Markus Elfring
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