Re: [PATCH 4/7] arch/nios: replace "__auto_type" with "auto"

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 2025-07-18 14:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Side note: I think some coccinelle (or sed) script that replaces that
> older form of
> 
>        typeof(x) Y = (typeof(x))(Z);
> 
> or
> 
>         typeof(Z) Y = Z;
> 
> 
> with just
> 
>         auto Y = Z;
> 
> is also worthwhile at some point.
> 
> We have more of those, because that's the really traditional gcc way
> to do things that predates __auto_type.
> 

Agreed.  And I think that this, indeed is a job more for Coccinelle than
for sed, because the patterns can be rather complex and we don't want
false positives.

	-hpa