Re: [cocci] Adjusting attributes for variables with SmPL?

On Thu, 28 May 2026, Markus Elfring wrote:

> >>> coccinelle.content = cocci.make_ident("__attribute__((myattr(\"" + x + "\"))) " + f)
> > You don't have to put the whole thing in content.  Content could just make
> > the string, and then the replacement rule could have built the rest.
> Under which circumstances would a function call like make_attribute()
> become better supported?
> https://gitlab.inria.fr/coccinelle/coccinelle/-/blob/1bff7651118fc65c269dd8dba7f7d4a30fbc72c7/docs/Coccilib.3cocci#L154-159

Probably when someone is motivated to implement it.  But there is no
motivation to implement it here.  The only goal is to put a metavariable
in a string.  We can fix the fresh identifier string problem, but since
python works well enough, that's also fine.

julia

>
> Regards,
> Markus
>