Re: SmPL scripts into build environment?

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 06:23:23 EST


> Documentation/smpl/$name_of_problem_fixed.cocci? Or maybe better
> scripts/smlp/..., if you are going to add some wrapper that runs the
> semantic patches on the source tree. Or something like that, a dedicated
> subdirectory to store the semantic patches in individual files.

The idea is to make it possible to run them, assuming the user has
installed Coccinelle, so scripts seems better.

> > What do you think the best way would be to introduce some check like this
> > in the build environment?
>
> I've only heard about the tool, I haven't used it yet. Does it need to
> preprocess and parse source files like sparse does, or can it check C
> files without expanding macros and includes?

It doesn't need to preprocess the source files.

thanks,
julia
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