Hello, Implementations of various functions will be changed on demand. It can happen then that you would like to know if the applied changes will result also in differences for the generated code.
Development tools like “size” can display some information for such a comparison. The total size display might be occasionally not so useful. I imagine that it can help to split a default section configuration into smaller parts. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.2.0/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-section-function-attribute I would like to append a corresponding attribute to a function signature by the means of the semantic patch language. @section_specification@ type T; @@ T rcar_pcie_enable_msi(...) + __attribute__((section ("my_update"))) { ... } Unfortunately, the software “Coccinelle 1.0.6-00345-g2ca0befa” does not like such an approach so far. elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Linux/next-patched> spatch ~/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor/set_section1.cocci drivers/pci/host/pcie-rcar.c … plus: parse error: File "/home/elfring/Projekte/Coccinelle/janitor/set_section1.cocci", line 6, column 1, charpos = 105 around = '{', whole content = { Can the software situation be improved anyhow for this use case? Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list Cocci@systeme.lip6.fr https://systeme.lip6.fr/mailman/listinfo/cocci
