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Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> writes:

> What I'm saying is, while Hawkmoth is perhaps not the right solution,
> using any generic C parser will face some of the same issues regardless.

...which is why I mentioned tree-sitter, where it would be (relatively)
easy to augment the C grammar with a grammar for the kerneldoc comments
and end up with everything in a single AST.

It's still not going to happen, but one can dream...:)

jon