From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: cocci@inria.fr
Subject: [cocci] Completing SmPL metavariable types?
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 07:56:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <272fbb1e-ac55-43c7-aa2b-3fd9ceb60798@web.de> (raw)
Hello!
Metavariables are supported to some degree.
https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/03a1af0a3316ddfc2b54d827b8b9627a841c85c9/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L209-288
A few types are still missing according to the known abstraction hierarchy.
Examples:
* https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_other.html#Function_call
https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/preprocessor/replace.html#Function-like_macros
Is there a need for a special representation of function/macro calls?
* https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_assignment.html
Would it occasionally be also helpful to restrict expressions to assignments?
How will data processing support grow for such items?
Regards,
Markus
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