On Sat, 28 Nov 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The following small SmPL script gets successfully parsed by the Coccinelle software.
>
>
> @Replacement@
> expression call, input, target;
> identifier gs;
> @@
> -\( g_string_assign@gs \| g_string_append@gs \) (target, input);
>  call (
> -      target
> +      gs (target, input)
>       );
>
>
> But if I would like to omit the semicolon in the last line, I stumble on
> the error message “incompatible minus and plus code starting on lines 5 and 6”.
> Can such a software limitation be adjusted?

Why do you want to remove the semicolon?

If you want to find the call somewhere in the next statement, you can say

(
S
&
call(
  ...
  )
)

where S is a statement metavariable.  I'm not sure what will happen if
there are two occurrences of call in the statement.

julia