Re: [cocci] HELP: multiple inserts at one position

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:38:50 +0100 (CET)
Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr> wrote:

> > Now, mere cosmetics, but is there a way to retain the spaces before the
> > braces in the replacement?
> 
> Try the argument --smpl-spacing.

That does the trick, thanks!

Is there a way to use regexp captures for the matching and replacement
part? Think templates for (parts of) the name of the identifiers.

In the specific case of mpz and mpfr, both use a similar API for the
allocators {mpfr,mpz}_init{,2,3,_set_str} and deallocators
{mpfr,mpz}_clear{,s}

To avoid duplicating the rules for "mpfr" and "mpz", it would be handy
to match and replace per the underlying type or, maybe, a part of the
matched identifier name. Is that something that is readily available?

Just curious, it's not all that important..

thanks for your prompt help so far!