Re: [PATCH 2/2] compat/*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch

> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 11:43:06PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Denton Liu wrote:
> >
> > > In 554544276a (*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using
> > > spatch, 2019-04-29), we removed externs from function declarations using
> > > spatch but we intentionally excluded files under compat/ since some are
> > > directly copied from an upstream and we should avoid churning them so
> > > that manually merging future updates will be simpler.
> > >
> > > In the last commit, we determined the files which taken from an upstream
> > > so we can exclude them and run spatch on the remainder.
> > >
> > > This was the Coccinelle patch used:
> > >
> > > 	@@
> > > 	type T;
> > > 	identifier f;
> > > 	@@
> > > 	- extern
> > > 	  T f(...);
> > >
> > > and it was run with:
> > >
> > > 	$ git ls-files compat/\*\*.{c,h} |
> > > 		xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place
> > > 	$ git checkout -- \
> > > 		compat/regex/ \
> > > 		compat/inet_ntop.c \
> > > 		compat/inet_pton.c \
> > > 		compat/nedmalloc/ \
> > > 		compat/obstack.{c,h} \
> > > 		compat/poll/
> > >
> > > Coccinelle has some trouble dealing with `__attribute__` and varargs so
> > > we ran the following to ensure that no remaining changes were left
> > > behind:
> > >
> > > 	$ git ls-files compat/\*\*.{c,h} |
> > > 		xargs sed -i'' -e 's/^\(\s*\)extern \([^(]*([^*]\)/\1\2/'
> > > 	$ git checkout -- \
> > > 		compat/regex/ \
> > > 		compat/inet_ntop.c \
> > > 		compat/inet_pton.c \
> > > 		compat/nedmalloc/ \
> > > 		compat/obstack.{c,h} \
> > > 		compat/poll/
> >
> > I wonder whether we want to make this part of the (slightly misnamed)
> > "Static Analysis" job in our CI.
>
> Do you mean running cocci on all of our source files as opposed to just
> the files we compile? These two patches are part of an experimental (and
> unsubmitted) patchset that does exactly that. Seeing that there's
> interest, I'll try to send it in soon.