[Cocci] modifying initializers with spatch?

[johannes@sipsolutions.net (Johannes Berg)]

On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 23:09 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> Ok, sounds good.??Let me know if you encounter further problems.

You jinxed it ;-)
Now with the git version.

struct foo v = {
	.nested = {
		.x = 7,
		.y = 8,
	},
};

still broke, because of course my initializer replacement rule didn't
actually find it, and then the bug hit and removed the {} anyway even
though they weren't empty :)

Similarly,

char * foo[] = {
	[1] = "name1",
	[2] = "name2",
};

was butchered quite a bit :)

The latter case - though not with strings - actually does seem to be
present in the code I care about, but I can probably just replace it
manually first.

Interestingly, this whole exercise is obviously not even a good idea
for static variables - need to see if I can exclude those somehow,
first naive attempts didn't work :)

johannes