Re: [RFC v3] scripts: kernel-doc: reduce repeated regex expressions into variables

[Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>]

On 1/5/21 9:13 pm, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:07:29PM +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
>> +    my $name = qr{[a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+};
>> +    my $prototype_end1 = qr{[^\(]*};
>> +    my $prototype_end2 = qr{[^\{]*};
>> +    my $prototype_end = qr{\(($prototype_end1|$prototype_end2)\)};
> 
> Would this be better written as:
> 
> 	my $prototype_end = qr{\([^\(\{]*\)}
> 

Hi Matthew
I have actually tried this earlier, but it does not work as expected,
probably because of greedy matching. I have produced the list of
warning differences before and after over the files, when using this
regex:
https://github.com/AdityaSrivast/kernel-tasks/blob/master/random/kernel-doc/diff_on_alt_protend


> And now that I look at the whole thing, doesn't this fail to parse
> a function declared as:
> 
> int f(void (*g)(long));
> 
> (that is, f takes a single argument, which is a pointer to a function
> which takes a long argument and returns void)
> 

I think this will match against:
$prototype =~ m/^($type1)\s+($name)\s*$prototype_end/

Thanks
Aditya