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On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2018-08-26 at 22:24 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:57:57AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >
> > > > That, BTW, is why I hate the use of sizeof(*p) in kmalloc, etc.
> > > > arguments.  typeof is even worse in that respect.
> > >
> > > True.  Semantic searches via tools like coccinelle could help here
> > > but those searches are quite a bit slower than straightforward greps.
> >
> > Those searches are .config-sensitive as well, which can be much more
> > unpleasant than being slow...
>
> Are they?  Julia?

I don't completely understand the question.  Coccinelle doens't know
anything about the configuration.

julia