> Normally, a call to a function that might fail only occurs in a function body.

That is true of course. I would like to concentrate on this use case for a
general search and a potential repair algorithm exactly.


> The only way to access the name of the enclosing function at the SmPL 
> level is to match the function header.

We have got a different understanding about the means that would be useful at
this source code place.
I am looking for a way to find the corresponding function body without
specifying a function name literal or an identifier meta-variable here.


> A patch normally contains the name of the enclosing function on the line 
> with the line number information.

I agree to this view if you mean the unified difference format of patch hunks in
the end result.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff#Unified_format

Regards,
Markus
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