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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Cc: cocci@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [cocci] Matching function pointer casts
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:25:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bf7a6df-e3d1-4468-8a8e-632258e00587@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1622b03-ada2-4978-92ee-268b0868671c@grsecurity.net>

> I meanwhile found a workaround but it's ugly -- not because cocci fails
> to match on function pointer casts (I implemented that by making use of
> its python script capabilities) but because of actual source code
> guards, the function pointer assignments are wrapped in.
> 
> It's an '#if ... #else ... #endif' block that, apparently, doesn't get
> processed correctly. The preprocessor condition is non-trivial as in not
> simply being "0" or "1" but still easy enough to handle (one level of indirection).

Thanks for such background information.

There are some development challenges remaining for better support
of conditional “compilation” (or analysis) also by the means of the Coccinelle software.

Regards,
Markus

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-10 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-02 14:12 [cocci] Matching function pointer casts Mathias Krause
2025-12-10 11:12 ` Markus Elfring
     [not found]   ` <c1622b03-ada2-4978-92ee-268b0868671c@grsecurity.net>
2025-12-10 14:25     ` Markus Elfring [this message]

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