From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:30:09 +0100
Subject: [Cocci] Finding several type qualifiers with SmPL?
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>> Another source code example:
>> static const struct data const* my_pointer;
> 
> That would still be just a duplicate, wouldn't it.

Would it make sense that the semantic patch language can also handle
such misplaced stars or type qualifiers?


> To actually make sense it would have to be:
>   static const struct data * const my_pointer;

This kind of source code will be more useful together with an
initialisation expression, won't it?


Can you imagine more nice transformations here?

Regards,
Markus