From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: cocci@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [cocci] Improving support for casts in SmPL code?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:30:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81e13b2e-3895-4531-97c8-2e7fa035e6cc@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b311a87d-7d1-359f-42db-2c5618b6158@inria.fr>
>> https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/e6f8731b851f5d76d2731a9d546dc4f0b181526e/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L456-466
>>
>> I find this information source unclear in the way for pointing a possible property
>> out for metavariables of the kind “type definition”.
>> Do they refer to a fixed type name?
>
> typedef is for declaring that a name is a typedef.
Some metavariables tend to represent the concept that that they may refer to
variable items.
There are also metavariable kinds that contain a “name”.
Are these ones fixed finally?
Regards,
Markus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-14 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-11 18:23 [cocci] Checking SmPL support for two special expressions Markus Elfring
2025-11-11 18:29 ` Julia Lawall
2025-11-11 19:43 ` Markus Elfring
2025-11-11 20:41 ` Julia Lawall
2025-11-12 6:12 ` Markus Elfring
2025-11-12 13:10 ` Julia Lawall
2025-11-12 13:15 ` Markus Elfring
2025-11-13 7:05 ` [cocci] Improving support for casts in SmPL code? Markus Elfring
2025-11-14 0:59 ` Julia Lawall
2025-11-14 8:30 ` Markus Elfring [this message]
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