> In the second case, Coccinelle has no way of knowing that ex is a pointer,

Can the software support pointer expressions better?


> so it doesn't feel motivated to consider that ex should be compared to NULL.

Should an isomorphism specification like “not_ptr2” help here?
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/19ee1697bf152d37a78a20cefe148775bf4b0e0d/standard.iso#L157


> I would imagine that you would have gooten at least some relevant
> information if you had tried spatch --parse-cocci.

This data display can give useful hints.
Are we waiting also for a more complete software documentation in
such an application area?

Regards,
Markus
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