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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Jaskaran Singh <jaskaransingh7654321@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [Cocci] [RFC PATCH 12/25] parsing_c: cpp_token_c: Introduce MACROANNOTATION hint
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:40:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cd63421-3708-ea22-e8ff-5563eb1784d1@web.de> (raw)

> A better way of denoting attributes is to pass attribute information
> from SmPL to the C parser.

Such information sounds promising.


> However, a temporary solution is to introduce a MACROANNOTATION hint
> to cpp_token_c.ml so that the parser can identify attributes easily.

Have you got any development ideas which would not need the introduction
of “temporary” approaches?


> This hint can be used as follows in standard.h, the user provided
> macro-defs file or the given C file itself:
>
> 	#define __attribute_name MACROANNOTATION

Can it make sense to work with a function-like macro at such places?

 	#define USE_ANNOTATION(info) info ITEM_ANNOTATION

Regards,
Markus
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