Re: coccinelle and bitmask arithmetic (was: Re: [patch] TTY: synclink, small cleanup in dtr_rts())

Joe Perches
2013-01-29T16:31:10Z

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 17:19 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:55 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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> > > I wonder if there's a way to write a coccinelle patch to find places
> > > where we do arithmetic operations on bitmasks....
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> If the definition of a bitmask is an identifier in all capital letters,
> that would be easy. Another possibility is such an identifier that is
> defined to a value expressed beginning with 0x. Another possibility is
> such an identifier that is sometimes used with & and | and sometimes used
> with an arithmetic operation. I will give them a try.

Thanks Julia.