On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > Thanks for your detailed response. > > > > In fact, it looks like a string is a constant element in the grammar of > > Coccinelle. > > Thus, we can change a string "aaa" to a string "bbb", but there is no way > > to "look inside the literal" and make transformations there from SmPL alone. > > Would it make sense to peek into strings and source code comments by the > semantic patch language? > > Would it be convenient and safer to avoid calls into SmPL's scripting > interfaces?
Not much. Strings and comments are not structured, at least not ccording to the C grammar. If one wants to make a coccinelle for one's favorite commenting standard, then that could be interesting, but it is not a priority of this project. julia _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/cocci (Web access from inside DIKUs LAN only)
