From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: cocci <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] spatch for trivial pointer comparison style?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:22:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415982122.5912.14.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1411140938400.2443@hadrien>
On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 10:18 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > Yes, I agree with some of the things Al Viro said
> > there, but isn't 'type t; t *p;' a subset of
> > "expression *e"?
> No. How would you expect it to be different.
[]
> type t means that the type
> is known. expression *e means that there is a * in the type.
I had thought "expression *" could be r-value and
"type t; t *p;" could be l-value.
But then I don't find (or maybe don't parse too well)
the coccinelle documentation that specifies these
type relationships.
cheers, Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-14 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-13 19:55 spatch for trivial pointer comparison style? Joe Perches
2014-11-14 6:06 ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2014-11-14 6:12 ` Joe Perches
2014-11-14 9:18 ` Julia Lawall
2014-11-14 16:22 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-11-15 6:11 ` Julia Lawall
2014-11-14 10:08 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-14 10:31 ` Julia Lawall
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