On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there a way to capture in a statement list the comments and empty
> lines between statements?
>
> I've got asked for scripting help to merge a ton of helper functions
> into their only caller.
>
> Of course it is trivial to do with coccinelle. But the comments and
> empty lines get lost in the process:
>
> spatch merge.cocci -D func=foo_base merge.c > merge.diff
>
>
> It is not a big issue, only about 55 functions to merge. So I can either
> use the above script and add the comments and newlines back. Or copy the
> stuff manually.
Metavariables lose all of their whitespace and comments, so that that they
can be unified against other instances that have different whitespace and
comments. Perhaps dropping the information could be delayed until the
metavariable needs to be compared against another one, but that doesn't
seem to be what is done at the moment.
julia
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