Re: [cocci] Can we match a known macro by macro name instead of expanded function name?

>>> .c
>>>
>>> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(foo,int,x) { return 0; }
>>
>> How can a macro call be matched here?
> 
> We have already discussed extensively that it can't.

There might corresponding collateral evolution become more helpful.


>                                                       Because the code
> doesn't parse without doing the expansion.

Where is the information provided that we may actually expect a macro expansion here?
(Is special pattern recognition applied eventually?)

Does such functionality usually belong to a preprocessor?

See also:
https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/4c9d00ae071800cb447efaffd753f3bb2be28800/docs/manual/introduction.tex#L1-6

Regards,
Markus