On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:47:25AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Coccinelle has support to make use of its own enhanced "grep" > > > mechanisms instead of using regular grep for searching code, > > > it calls this 'coccigrep'. In lack of any indexing optimization > > > information it uses --use-coccigrep by default. > > > > > > This patch enable indexing optimizations heuristics so that coccigrep > > > can automatically detect what indexing options are available and use > > > them accordinly without any user input. > > > > > > Since git has its own index, support for using 'git grep' has been > > > added to Coccinelle, that should on average perform better than > > > using the internal coccigrep. Coccinelle has had idutils support > > > as well for a while now, you however need to refer to the index > > > file. We support detecting two idutils index files by default, > > > ID and .id-utils.index, assuming you ran either of: > > > > > > # What you might have done: > > > mkid -s > > > # as in coccinelle scripts/idutils_index.sh > > > mkid -i C --output .id-utils.index * > > > > > > Lastly, Coccinelle has had support for glimpseindex for a long while, > > > however the glimpseindex tool, the agrep library were previously closed > > > source, its all now open sourced, and provides the best performance, so > > > support that if we can detect you have a glimpse index. > > > > > > You can always override the index as follows: > > > > > > $ make coccicheck V=1 MODE=report COCCI_INDEX="--use-idutils ID" > > > > Why not just have a generic COCCI_ARGS argument? > > Actually SPFLAGS exists already so we can just document to > override using that. Will fix.
That seems like a good solution. julia