On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Julia Lawall <[email protected]> wrote:
> A partial solution to your problem is below. The problems are as follows:
Thanks a lot.
>
> 1. Coccinelle has to be able to find the structure definition. This is an
> intrinsic problem. You will have to use the argument --all-includes or even
> --recursive-includes so that it will try to hunt around for the needed
> include files. This will be slow.
>
> 2. If there is a mixture of c99 declarations and non-c99 declarations, the
> rule does nothing.
>
> 3. There is a lot of duplicated code, due to some useful features not being
> supported for structure initializers.
>
> 4. The rule only supports a simple structure or an array of structure.
>
> I can fix the second and third points. But they don't really matter for
> using the rule.
>
> The rule actually works for any structure type name that you specify. You
> do that using the argument
>
> -D ty=typename
>
> The rule could easily be generalized to work on all types, but I expect you
> don't want to bother with that. So you would run spatch as follows:
>
> spatch --cocci-file file.cocci --dir linuxpath -D ty=typename
>
> To speed things up a bit, I would suggest adding the arguments
>
> --cache_prefix /tmp/coccicache --cache_limit 500
>
spatch -sp_file file.cocci drivers/rtc/rtc-rs5c372.c -D ty=i2c_msg
init_defs_builtins: /usr/share/coccinelle/standard.h
339 340
Fatal error: exception Failure("minus: parse error:
= File "c99.cocci", line 33, column 7, charpos = 339
around = 'a', whole content = .i = a,
Am I missing something?
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