Re: [cocci] Reconsidering source code search challenges for nested compound statements

Julia Lawall <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Mar 2026 17:53:58 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups fr.inria.cocci
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Sun, 8 Mar 2026, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> Under which circumstances would you dare to acknowledge remaining open issues here?
> >
> > If you can tell me what result you want maybe I can do something.
>
> Can you see concrete change opportunities from my recent test results?
>
> 1. Inappropriate difference output
>    https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/[email protected]/
>    https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2026-03/msg00004.html

There is a problem here.

> 2. Questionable hierarchy level
>    https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/[email protected]/
>    https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2026-03/msg00015.html

This is the message I was referring to.  I have no idea what you expect as
the output.  I don't know why it is so hard to provide that information.

julia

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> > It's not a matter of daring to do something or not.
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> Will development interests grow anyhow?
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> Regards,
> Markus
>