> Even for 6 functions, I would suggest to write out the function names in > the pattern matching code rather than using regular expressions. If the > names are explicit, then Coccinelle can do some filtering, either based on > an index made with idutils or glimpse (see the coccinelle scripts > directory for tools for making these indices) or based on grep, to drop > without parsing files that are not relevant. It doesn't do this for > regular expressions. So you will get a faster result if the names are > explicit in the pattern code.
Is such filtering performed for source file names? I would find it more convenient to specify function prefixes as regular expressions in constraints for the shown SmPL metavariables. Regards, Markus
