linux-kernel - Re: Software evolution around scripts for the semantic patch langugae

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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:     Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Bornträger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Walter Harms <wharms@....de>
Subject: Re: Software evolution around scripts for the semantic patch
 langugae



On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >>   This issue was detected also by using the Coccinelle software.
> >
> > Do you have the scripts you use published somewhere?
>
> I would like to add another view for the corresponding software development.
>
> The complete answer depends also on the kind of "scripts"
> you are looking for. Would you like to clarify any details
> a bit more here?

I imagine that she is asking for:

@@
expression e1,e2,e3;
@@

- kmalloc(e1 * e2, e3)
+ kmalloc_array(e1, e2, e3)

Or some close variant.  It seems pretty straightforward to provide and
can help orient the reader to what is going on.

julia