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From: oleg@redhat.com (Oleg Nesterov)
To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: [Cocci] Q: question on disjunction of sub-expression patterns
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:08:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170423150816.GA24670@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704221844060.2351@hadrien>

On 04/22, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2017, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > It looks as if only one pattern from disjunction can match in the same statement.
> > IOW, (PAT1 | PAT2) actually means (PAT1* | PAT2*), not (PAT1 | PAT2)*. Say,
> >
> The idea with a disjunction is that if the first rule matches, then that
> one wins.  Actually, ( A | B ) is encoded as A v (not A & B).

OK, thanks a lot Julia!

Does this mean that I have to write 2 separate rules if I want to track the member
dereferences? One for "->" and another for ".", because I can't use the "operator"
metadecl in this case.

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-23 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-22 16:02 [Cocci] Q: question on disjunction of sub-expression patterns Oleg Nesterov
2017-04-22 16:45 ` Julia Lawall
2017-04-23 15:08   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2017-04-23 16:03     ` Julia Lawall

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