On 2025-07-18 14:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Side note: I think some coccinelle (or sed) script that replaces that
> older form of
>
> typeof(x) Y = (typeof(x))(Z);
>
> or
>
> typeof(Z) Y = Z;
>
>
> with just
>
> auto Y = Z;
>
> is also worthwhile at some point.
>
> We have more of those, because that's the really traditional gcc way
> to do things that predates __auto_type.
>
Agreed. And I think that this, indeed is a job more for Coccinelle than
for sed, because the patterns can be rather complex and we don't want
false positives.
-hpa
