Re: cocci: multiple versions of function with different arguments

[Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>]

On 23.04.2014 14:18, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 14:14 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
>> I can think  about it, but it is pretty far from the vision of Coccinelle,
>> which is that the combination of context code and + code should be a valid
>> syntactic unit, and on the side that we don't think much about ifdefs.
>>
>> But I will think about it, because I can see that it is not a solvable
>> problem with the current technology.
> 
> Luis kinda solved it by introducing an intermediate function that would
> call the original, and then #ifdef'ing the assignment of the function
> instead.
> 
> (This is only a problem when there's a function assignment to start
> with, otherwise there's likely no need to modify the function
> declaration - this only comes up with function pointer APIs)
> 
> johannes
> 

Thanks Johannes and Julia. I think the missing semicolon is what caused
the issue. I'll do some tests and report back.

  Stefan