On Fri, 5 Sep 2025, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I became curious if further developers would like to try the following script out
> for the semantic patch language.
>
>
> @display@
> identifier action;
> type t;
> @@
> *t * action(...)
> {
> ... when any
when any is not useful here.
> }
>
>
> I interpret such a search approach in the way that it should extract some data
> from a lot of source code places.
> Thus I imagine that it results also in special software run time characteristics
> which matter especially for big codebases like Linux.
I guess it would be quite fast, because it will just find the deader of
each function.
julia
> How do you think about to clarify corresponding data collections
> and computation resources?
>
> Related source code analysis concerns can eventually be also clarified.
>
> * Handling of function declarations in header files
>
> * Relevance of some preprocessor directives
>
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
