Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Makefile/coccicheck: fix bugs and speed it up

From: René Scharfe. <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Mar 6, 2021, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <c654c7f8-bcdd-ab58-cddb-a1005a9b8914@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <87ft18tcog.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Am 06.03.21 um 18:27 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

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> Do these sorts of rules really benefit that much from the type
> v.s. expression? If yes we'll obviously need to support it, but if (and
> I haven't looked closely) we can equally rewrite them with "expression"
> (or it would be good enough) we could be quite a bit faster by
> default...

Type information is essential for many (most?) semantic patches. Untyped replacements could be done more easily using sed or similar.

René

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