On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Nicolas Palix wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Ajay Panyala <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is the comment relevant for matching ?
> >
> > Yes, I would like to transform only the occurrence of foo(..)
> > with the comment above it. The patch would replace all
> > occurrences of foo(...) instead of replacing only the one
> > with a comment above it. I am assuming the number of
> > calls to foo(..) in the code is unknown.
> 
> So far, Coccinelle could not be used to match comments.
> Comments are considered to be SmPL comments.
> You can thus only add comments.
> I have tried using
> 
> -//comment
> +//comment
> 
> but it don't work either.
> 
> Julia, maybe matching comments is reasonable.
> They are often in natural language but can also be used
> by annotation systems. In that case, it could be useful
> to match against them.
> 
> Is there any problem to match them ?

They don't fit particularly well in the control-flow graph.  We also 
assume that comments would be too free form to be usefully matched 
against.

julia
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