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From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:55:22 +0200
Subject: [Cocci] Restore source code from matched expressions?
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>> Are there any chances that this software will become able to restore a preferred
>> source code layout from the matched expressions?
> 
> No, a metavariable contains no information about its format, so that it
> can match with other metavariables, and when it is printed, Coccinelle
> follows whatever strategy it follows, which is intended to follow the
> conventions of Linux, but is not always successful.

Do SmPL metavariables also manage the start and end positions for the source
code part which was matched in a specific analysis context?
Is such information not only available for position metavariables?

Regards,
Markus