linux-kernel - Re: Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Checking consequences from the usage of at signs in Python strings

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Message-ID: <5db0f153-2e51-6728-79af-e15b8989d017@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:43:00 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Cc:     cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>
Subject: Re: Coccinelle: zalloc-simple: Checking consequences from the usage
 of at signs in Python strings

> So it works, but you are complaining anyway?

I dare to point a contradiction out between two information sources
once more.

Is this SmPL script really working in intended way already?


> I guess the conclusion is that it woks in strings (which are pretty
> universal) and not in comments (which are language specific).

Does the documentation need another update for the Coccinelle software
to achieve the desired correctness?


Which software design direction will get priority in such an use case?

Regards,
Markus