Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: assign signed result to unsigned variable

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> The connection between the SmPL specification "f(...)@e" and the desired return type
> >> was not obvious for me so far.
> >
> > The nearest enclosing expression of the ) is the whole function call itself.
>
> Thanks for your explanation.
>
> Now I guess that the enclosing context is a particular function implementation
> where specific calls are performed, isn't it?

No idea what yu mean by this.  Function calls are usually found within
function definitions.  But it could be in the definition of a macro as
well.  It doesn't matter, as long as the type is available.

>
>
> > e will thus match the entire expression.  e is declared to have type t
>
> Did you omit this detail in your suggestion a moment ago?

I don't thik so.  I said t e; where t could be whatever typep or set of
types one wants.

>
> > (where t is in practice signed int or whatever one wants to check for).
>
> How do you think about reuse another data type enumeration there?

No idea what you mean by this.

>
> How would you like to manage names for functions which are not defined
> in the current source file?

Why does it matter in this case?

julia

> Regards,
> Markus
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