From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)
To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: [Cocci] prinkt specifiers
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 07:27:43 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1710110726070.3833@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171011000745.GD2049@eros>
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to craft a coccinelle script to find and replace calls (in the kernel) that are
> printing pointers using %x.
>
> Perhaps we could easily catch the calls that are casting the pointer within argument list, for example
>
> pr_info("x: %llx\n", (unsigned long long int)ptr);
>
> I'm happy to try and work out how to do it, just chasing a 'yes that is exactly the type of thing
> cocci is good at' or a 'no, you are dreaming, perhaps <this tool> can do that'
It's possible. Look at coccinelle/demos/format.cocci
This may not be the most well tested part of Coccinelle, so if it is not
doing what you expect, please feel free to complain.
julia
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2017-10-11 0:07 [Cocci] prinkt specifiers Tobin C. Harding
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2017-10-12 2:11 ` Tobin C. Harding
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