Re: [cocci] Improving expression list selections with SmPL ellipses?

On Sat, 1 Nov 2025, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Would you find the following SmPL script variant reasonable?
>
> @display@
> @@
> *my_action("Hello!", ..., ...);

I have no idea what you think this should mean.  How is it different than

my_action("Hello!", ...);

julia

>
>
> Unfortunately, I was disturbed by the following information.
>
> Questionable test result (according to the software combination “Coccinelle 1.3.0”):
> Markus_Elfring@Sonne:…/Projekte/Coccinelle/Probe> /usr/bin/spatch --parse-cocci parse_test_for_ellipsis_as_last_parameter.cocci
> …
> minus: parse error:
>   File "parse_test_for_ellipsis_as_last_parameter.cocci", line 3, column 26, charpos = 39
>   around = '...',
>   whole content = *my_action("Hello!", ..., ...);
>
>
> Under which circumstances will such data processing work also without using
> extra metavariables (instead of SmPL ellipses)?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>