On Sat, 23 Jul 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > The <+... ...+> starts the matching process at the beginning of the > > function and ends it at the end of the function, instead of just working > > on each if one by one. Thus <+... ...+> should be much less efficient. > > Also with <+... ...+> if you put a position variable on eg the if, you > > will get a single position array with all the matches, whereas without it > > you get one position array per if. > > How are the chances that such kind of information will also find its way > into the section "Dot variants" of the manual? > https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/3b52bd3c6960dc996186e1c58c96355db288825c/docs/manual/cocci_syntax.tex#L632 The cited text already discusses the case where <+... matches back to the beginning of the function. So perhaps with a little imagination one could infer on one's own that at ...+> at the end of a pattern would match to the end of the function... julia _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] https://systeme.lip6.fr/mailman/listinfo/cocci
