[Cocci] Finding designated initialisers with SmPL

[elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring)]

> I have tried the following small SmPL script
> 
> @show_designated_initialisers@
> identifier allocation, element, structure_type, structure_var;
> @@
>  <+...
> *struct structure_type structure_var = { ..., .element = allocation(...), ... };
>  ...+>
> 
> 
> on this
> 
> 
> char* get_default_message(short selection)
> {
>  static char xyz[123];
>  
>  switch (selection)
>  {
>  case 1:
>   strcpy(xyz, "Test");
>  default:
>   strcpy(xyz, "working");
>  }
>  return xyz;
> }
> 
> static unsigned long my_counter = 0;
> 
> static struct my_string
> {
>  unsigned int length;
>  char* text;
> } message = { .text = get_default_message(1), .length = 123 };
> 
> 
> source code example.
> 
> 
> elfring at Sonne:~/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor> spatch.opt -sp-file show_designated_initialisers1.cocci designated_initialiser1.c
> init_defs_builtins: /usr/local/lib/coccinelle/standard.h
> HANDLING: designated_initialiser1.c
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I do not see a generated patch there.
> How should I improve my approach for the expected analysis result?

How is the status for the support of data processing for designated initialisers
with the semantic patch language?

Regards,
Markus