On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Paul Chaignon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am working on a small semantic patch to annotate specific variables in
> our codebase with __attribute__((aligned(8))). The following program works
> fine.
>
>   @r@
>   expression e1, e2;
>   identifier x;
>   @@
>   (
>     struct \(icmphdr\|icmp6hdr\) x
>   + __attribute__((aligned(8)))
>     ;
>   |
>     struct \(icmphdr\|icmp6hdr\) x
>   + __attribute__((aligned(8)))
>     = ...;
>   )
>     ... when exists
>     ctx_load_bytes(e1, e2, &x, ...)
>
> However, when I replace __attribute__((aligned(8))) with our internal
> macro __align_stack_8, it fails with the following error:
>
>   plus: parse error:
>     File "/home/paul/cilium/contrib/coccinelle/aligned.cocci", line 7, column 
> 2, charpos = 77
>     around = '__align_stack_8',
>     whole content = + __align_stack_8
>
> I've tried adding '#define __align_stack_8' in a file passed with
> --macro-file, without success. Is this a known limitation for macros or
> am I missing something?

Try adding the "metavariable" declaration:

attribute name __align_stack_8;

julia

>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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