From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:01:40 +0200
Subject: [Cocci] Error predicate determination with SmPL?
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>> Does the metavariable type "expression" match also to the empty string?
> 
> No.

Thanks for your clarification.

I hope then that the shown specification of the SmPL variable will be
sufficient for a while to search for function implementations with
a non-void return type.


>> How are the chances that more documentation will become available
>> for safe processing of corresponding abstract syntax graph instances?
> 
> About the same as the chance that a user who wants the documentation will
> write it.  I have no plans to do so.  In general, if you know enough OCaml
> to use the abstract syntax tree, you also know enough OCaml to figure out
> what it is from the source code.  Everything is defined in
> parsing_c/ast_c.ml.

I would find it nice if a data structure representation will evolve
which is more independent from specific programming languages.

Regards,
Markus